Re: Distros specifically designed for children

Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 09:13:48 -0700, John Ames wrote:
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GIMP is deeply frustrating because it's a lot of very solid technical
functionality married to a cargo-cult version of the Photoshop UI ...

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That’s strange, isn’t it, since most of the Adobe-lovers who don’t like
GIMP primarily say it’s because its UI is too different from Photoshop.

 
So it is similar enough so that non-experts see a similarity, and
different enough that it's too different for photoshop fans.

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The photoshop fans (the true users) complain that GIMP is not
*identical* to Photoshop's UI -- because all their muscle memory and
memorized keystroke shortcuts are broken by even the slightest
difference.