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I don't to digital painting and art and I still prefer Krita. Although prefer is the wrong term, I despise GIMPs botched, unituitive and cumbersome UI so much, I'd rather code a figure in html/javascript and canvas or svg, before I'd use GIMP. Krita on the other hand is relatively nice to use.

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Initially it took some getting used to Gimp, but that was years ago, when I had not used any GNU/Linux distribution and was still a Windows XP user. Now I find Gimp's UI actually pretty logical and everything has its place. Not sure what people talk about when they complain about Gimp UI. Perhaps you can shed some light on the details you do not like?

It's been many years since I've used it the last time but I can remember that even the simplest tasks required googling and actively remembering how they were done because nothing was intuitive or logical. And the layer system was virtually unusable, I couldn't figure it out. In Krita or inkscape, the UI just makes much more sense so they are not as infuriating to work with.

That was my initial feeling about GIMP when I first tried to use it years and years ago. After many false starts and head scratching, the logic of it finally sunk in and now I find it pretty straightforward and logical. You just have to find a way to get over the very frustrating hump of understanding its basic design. But if all your needs are met by a program that doesn't demand that initial investment, all the better.

> I despise GIMPs botched, unituitive and cumbersome UI so much

Btw there is a new fork of GIMP, called "Glimpse" [1], that tries to improve the UI. Their first release was just a re-branded GIMP, but maybe they'll get something done someday.

https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse

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