Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 12/30/24 10:24 AM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-12-30 08:08, chrisv wrote:

-hh wrote:
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A fair & balanced point (idiocy snipped)

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Unlike -highhorse's lying "point".
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"Haters" being "loudly critical" of Photoshop is only his snittish
"interpretation" of the advocates' common-sense value arguments.
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In this thread I admitted that I've never used Photoshop.  But can he
quote me being critical of its performance or quality?  No, he can't.

Oh, there's _always_ a quote, especially when we reject the attempt to goalpost move away from criticism on cost:
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We have given examples of equivalency many times, only to have them
denied as not being good-enough. GIMP is a classic example. It's
plenty-good for the vast majority of users (and free!), but it's not
the best, not "the standard", so gets denied.
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 >Yeah, everyone who wants to manipulate images needs to pay $600 for
 >Photoshop and then use only a 16th of its functionality. <rolls eyes>
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 >It's a pretty lame troll, by the way.
Oh, of course. The market only needs one product, the "best" product,
you know. There's no need to alternative products that cost less and
work fine for many. (rolling eyes)
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It's snits like -highhorse who has always attacked unfairly.  Not the
advocates.  He will never escape this reality, no matter how much he
try to twists it.

Oh, look:  chrisv tries to also forget sbd's infamous and hilariously bad "[but] Photoshop should be 70,000 times better than GIMP" thread.

As far as I know, Huntzinger criticizes from the perspective of a Mac user. To him, anything that doesn't closely follow the Apple approach is simply intolerable.

Nah, its merely pragmatism in real life application, by knowing what issues are worth the effort vs which are jousting at windmills.  Often done with an eye on IRL costs, vs as a time squandering hobby.
As I said back in 2012:
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Merely the pragmatism of 'right tool for the job' instead of a "cut
off one's own nose" religious intolerance based on supposedly superior
moral principles.
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...and here we are a decade later with the same philosophy still in operation, and for which why I still use all 3 (Mac/Win/Linux): it is simply each in their own way for what they're good at...
...which necessitates having the wisdom to *not* use the wrong tool for the job, due to some misguided allegiance to FOSS/whatever windmill.
Try it sometime.
-hh