Oh,you want arguments? I’ll give you arguments:
- prehistoric interface.
- the stupid thing don’t have CMYK mode, the most basic thing needed if you work with graphics.
- lack of adjusting layers a.k.a. non-destructive editing.
- It will lock up and lose your work for apparently no reason. I lost a graphic due to a crash because I made the incredibly challenging action of changing a font. It also cannot handle big files at all.
- It’s so. Fucking. Slow.
- That stupid, infantile, childish, emotionally stunted name.
There’s more but I’m not in the mood of reliving the time I had with this turd.
“Oh but they have X features on the roadmap”. Yeah, and today is the year of Linux on desktop. I don’t care. I need a functional software now, not in some undisclosed future.
Sure, no problem. People get agitaded because it gets recommended over and over again, and gimp is a piece of software that does not deserve this kind of recognition, at all. It should either be completely revamped and get a new name, or completely forgotten in favor of better alternatives like Krita.