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GIMP Dev when AI cloned Photoshop went viral
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2026
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I started with GIMP, and I've stuck with it and enjoyed it for all my use cases for over a decade.
I tried Photoshop a few times and hated it every time.
I love GIMP
Oh no you dont understand, the corpo dick suckers say the UX is terrible and the name unmarkatable, its not just their personal preferred way of handling things, aka the way Photoshop handles things.
The name is a huge self-own. I almost convinced a church to go fully FOSS awhile back, but the church people couldn’t handle the photoshop replacement being called gimp. So then they would’ve still needed Photoshop, so the whole Linux thing was kind of a non starter
You shoulda seen the look on the client's face when I told him the name of the software I used to enlarge and tile his image for a print project was "The Rasterbater."
/c/theyknew
*In English speaking countries.
I knew about GIMP like 6 years before I learned that gimp was an actual English word.
Why is the church using Photoshop and why did they not just use a different tool than GIMP? They did not switch because of GIMP? Why did they not use Krita or something?
I will be forever thankful for GIMP bringing us GTK and GNOME.
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@Wataba@sh.itjust.works if you are so offended by being called out as a corpo dick sucker, maybe you should suck less corpo dick?
I use GIMP because of no other viable alternatives but let's be honest : it's counterintuitive and not that good.