The ONE thing I miss in Linux

[Crojav]

I find it very unbelievable that the GIMP developers use their own software, for they surely would run into the same "issues" that I have with GIMP (unless they have never ever ever used any other photoeditor software and do not know any better?).

Exactly what I asked wondered myself over the years. ( Almost something as: in what for a ..... do they live?)

Are there any other people who use The GIMP regularly (by lack of anything better), and who find it a Greatly Irritating Miserable Program?

I use Gimp as LESS as possible. Missing any form of "intuitive" as a example Inkscape is "intuitive". Most cases Shotwell helps me with small editing. And YES I find it a Greatly Irritating Miserable Program!

Thanks Crojav

[ceeslans]

If you're really that irritated by it, then uninstall is just one click away.

[Jerry3904]

Bingo!

[wdscharff]

but don`t use apt autoremove after deinstalling gimp, like I did.
after that none of my image and video edits could export to the webm format.
I had to install Gimp again, after that it worked again.

[Sparky]

Inkscape & Pinta, check them out.

[figueroa]

I use GIMP as my goto bitmap image editor. It's is a killer program. The default settings in MX kind of stink. They gray theme and unified windows are particularly crippling. But, as with any other super powerful program, there is a learning curve those of you who are complaining have been unwilling to undertake.

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[Snod Blatter]

Ha oh boy I agree with this thread.. All I usually want to do is resize an image, maybe crop it, maybe draw an arrow on it and put some text on it. MS Paint is great for this, GIMP is really complicated.

[Eadwine Rose]

Install Hotshots, open the image in the editor. Arrow easily done.

Resize an image: open the image in Nomacs, same for cropping. You can do the resize and cropping in the Hotshots editor as well, just checked.

[bwhawk]

Another option for making quick image changes is ImageMagick. It's amazing what you can accomplish with that suite.

[gimcrack]

Ha oh boy I agree with this thread.. All I usually want to do is resize an image, maybe crop it, maybe draw an arrow on it and put some text on it. MS Paint is great for this, GIMP is really complicated.

If that's all you want to do and don't want to use GIMP. Then use a MS Paint alternative like MyPaint or something similar. Like I suggested earlier.

https://itsfoss.com/open-source-paint-apps/