And this is not far from my past experience on Windows. I was really hoping GIMP would have some trick up its sleeve to surprise me, but it did not. So, overall, one of the most often recommended FOSS alternatives, even by ME, is a distant last place in these extremely ad hoc, unscientific, off the cuff tests across 2 machines. Tried GIMP again on my desktop, no unusual background processes.Ĥth launch with mining pinning 3/4 CPU: 23 s. GIMP, no updates installing, clean GIMP install, 1st run: 243 second. ![]() Krita 2nd run, updates still installing: 10 s Krita while installing Windows updates, 1st run ever: 17 s. (reduce the chance of cache loads, not scientific, Chrome finished loading first, by about 10 seconds) GIMP while opening different 30 tabs in Chrome: 25 s. Paint.NET while opening 30 tabs in Chrome: 4 s. Krita WHILE crypto-mining on 3/4 logical processors (pinned to 100% usage): 4 s. Outdated version of Photoshop WHILE updating Visual Studio, 1st launch: 17 s. Visual Studio 2017 takes 18 seconds with a handful of extensions. PC: 6700k OC 32GB/1TB NvME (4x PCIE mode), 1080Ti, most background processes off: All these on Win using the highly accurate "1-Mississippi, 2-Mississippi." technique. Sure, a bunch of mechanics could take pieces off and attach them properly, but you've been driving the car around town for 22 years and this is the best they've managed so far. In theory, you have a luxury car, but in practice you're sitting on cold metal with an engine block obstructing your view of the road. It's like a luxury car assembled inside out. I repeated the above in Paint.NET, including launching, in 15 seconds and 2 undos from one minor quirk. Hide background and 'floating selection' to confirm nothing pasted.ģ.5 minutes and about 15 undos/cancel button clicks to do 'all' that. Click and drag again to be sure and the part I rotated earlier now moves across the screen. Select move tool, click and drag, no, nothing was pasted. Probably can't see it because it's pasted on top of the exact same part of the image. Select background layer and marquee a small part. First click on new layer button not detected. Unfocused? Now Enter works.Īdding a layer. 3 icons from the move tool on the same line, but it only rotates the selection. ![]() Why is the entire canvas being moved? Undo. Alright, let's move this selected area over. Apply filter, click and drag, and B/C again? Undo, wait, no, have to cancel. and the brightness dialog pops up? But, wha. Probably not optimized at install-time, when the user has time to burn, and instead opts for optimization at first launch, when the user actually needs to use the software. That's 1.5 minutes longer than any other program I have installed. It took 2 minutes to load (no image) from an NvME drive on a quad core system with a 1080Ti. I thought maybe I was remembering things wrong, so I fired Gimp up for the first time in months (v2.8.22 - I keep it updated with Chocolatey). You immediately see really good ideas expressed in the UI and then you interact with it and the whole thing collapses. I've used a lot of janky software, but Gimp is the most bewildering case. ![]() I mean, how do they make simply selecting something difficult? Even layers were unintuitive last time I tried Gimp. I mentally prepare myself for a different experience and try to keep an open mind, all while considering that my comfort will change with use, and I always leave disappointed and frustrated. I WANT to like Gimp and I give it a shot every year or so, but it never clicks. ![]() I've never done professional graphics work, but I've used Photoshop on and off for small projects since they added color in version 2.0. Even the fact that I'm comparing with Adobe Photoshop, a program itself known for horribly beginner-hostile and unintuitive (but in a weird way "learnable" and "natural") UI is a sign of how off things are. Honestly, its hard to say what's wrong with Gimp, because I can't figure out anything fully right about it.
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