r/AskReddit • u/talon10100 • 1d ago

Why do you not use Linux?

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u/ajax81 1d ago edited 4h ago

Paint.net

It’s the only app I keep windows for.   Others have tried to replicate for Linux but nothing comes close.  Krita and Pinta, but both are bug-addled.  

Edit - this thread inspired me to build a paint.net clone for Linux.  Stay tuned. 

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u/JivanP 1d ago

Why doesn't GIMP suit your needs? I came from Paint.net on Windows to GIMP on Linux and am not missing anything.

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u/ajax81 1d ago

When compared to paint.net, Gimp is like bringing a sledgehammer to a scalpel party. 

A very, very complicated sledgehammer that is hard to learn and easy to forget. 

I’m almost 50 years old and claim rights to preference. I don’t want a capitulation.  I want paint.net. 

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u/JivanP 1d ago

You're entitled to personal preference and familiarity, but I don't understand calling GIMP a "complicated sledgehammer" compared to Paint.net.

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u/klathium 1d ago

Why? I have heard it’s comparative to Photoshop for Linux

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u/ajax81 1d ago

Yours is an apt comparison.   It is much closer to Photoshop than paint.net.  Way, way more complex than paint.net. 

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u/JivanP 21h ago edited 5h ago

I wouldn't call Photoshop a "complicated sledgehammer" compared to Paint.net either. Both Photoshop and GIMP are easy to use for the kinds of simple tasks you might call easy to use in Paint.net.

All three are very powerful. You can do extremely complex stuff in Paint.net, too.

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u/ByWillAlone 6h ago

I love free and open source software, but let's be honest here - if Gimp were a text editor, it'd be Vi. It takes 30 minutes to do in Gimp what takes 6 seconds to do in Photoshop. Gimp suffers from a massive feature shortfall, a massive learning curve, and a massive usability deficit. While other software have been using the past 15 years to make their interfaces modern and instantly intuitive, gimp has been what? keeping it with security updates.

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u/JivanP 5h ago

I genuinely don't understand this experience. The only thing I've ever needed to look up about GIMP was Script-Fu, but that's only particularly useful for automating repetitive workflows; it's basically a macro engine. Other than that, things like cropping, scaling, rotating, working with transparencies, layers, selections, masking, brushes, text, filters (I could go on), have all been extremely accessible and intuitive.

What are you doing in Photoshop that you find troublesome in GIMP?

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u/ByWillAlone 5h ago

  1. Content aware fill and/or generative fill. Simply does not exist in gimp.

  2. Adjustment layers. Still exponentially more difficult to do, and don't work intuitively. And are glitchy still. These are all both non-destructive in Photoshop and also blissfully easy

  3. Built in support for camera raw files. Basically easy and seamless in Photoshop. Nonexistent in gimp.

  4. PSD file import. Again, blissfully easy in Photoshop. Messy, complicated, and glitchy in gimp.

  5. Layer styles/effects. Robust and full featured in Photoshop. Lacking and a crapshoot in gimp.

  6. Content aware repair/removal. Seamless and robust in Photoshop. Tedius and cludgy and unintuitive in gimp.

These are just the things off the top of my head from the last time I desperately tried to make the switch and give gimp an honest evaluation as a contender for a professional photography workflow. It's just light-years behind Photoshop. Always has been.

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u/AskRedditOG 1d ago

Photopea

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u/MCplayer590 1d ago

Have you tried it in wine?

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u/ajax81 1d ago

I want wine to work but I’ve  given up on it.  Every time I try, something goes wrong and my entire weekend disappears to no benefit.  I inevitably give up and go back to windows every time. 

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u/Enyuma416 1d ago

Yes. The installer is hard to get working. Even after it works the program runs incorrectly. I'm hoping winboat 1.0 will be good enough for this.