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   [object Object] (zzt@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 01:30:43 JST [object Object]

   one time I recommended Krita to a graphic designer friend and I had to swear to her that I wasn’t trying to trick her into “trying that gimp bullshit again”

   I was not in fact the one who got her to try gimp in the first place, that’s just how bad her experience with gimp was

   it’s not me the FOSS fan who’s wrong, it’s:

   - the trained graphic designers who tried gimp and hated it
   - wikipedia
   - people who prefer “corporate fascist slop” or uhhhh checks notes, other FOSS apps like krita that give a shit about design and didn’t name their app after the rape scene in pulp fiction

   “nothing we can do about our reputation for being hard to use” says the only major FOSS graphic design app with a reputation for being hard to use

   e: corrected alt text and pronouns, apologies, slight mistaken identity

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     [object Object] (zzt@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 01:31:21 JST [object Object]

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     if anyone comes here to swear that gimp’s better now, here’s a thought:

     fucking rebrand the piece of shit like a normal person. when the Mozilla suite got a redesign to not have a trash UI anymore we got Firefox. that’s how normal people do a successful rebrand.

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     John (johnzajac@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 01:32:31 JST John

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     @zzt

     "Hard to use" and "complicated and feature-rich so requires a skill investment to access effectively" are not the same thing, but the fact that many prof level software suites are the latter is a ready excuse for folks who make hard to use software.

     Also, *established conventions of UI* are not "fascist"; they're pre-existing skill sets you can leverage to...make your software easier to learn.

     Don't reinvent the mouse click unless you're 1000% sure your thing is better (it isn't)

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     Dave Rahardja value 71 (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jun-2026 01:40:46 JST Dave Rahardja value 71

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     @zzt Hear hear. There seem to be so many FOSS folks who seem to think that the ONLY possible answers to product issues are: “Our way (good)” and “The way of corporate fascist pigs (bad)”—and failing to see that “Our way (bad)” is also possible. These uncurious people are a big part of the problem, and they incessantly get in the way of FOSS adoption.