I’m getting paid. Not with money, but pure schadenfreude.

I don’t think that’s a new trend

Absolutely, when you look at what Linux does get used for and where it’s dominant, there’s shit loads of money getting poured into it.

I’m not complaining about GIMP, I’m complaining about the attitudes people have towards potential users of free software.

Linux is getting more popular because corporations like valve have put the effort into refining the user experience. I’m not just talking about a pretty UI either, I’m taking things like proton that makes playing games on Linux as easy as playing on windows.

I’m not saying there aren’t people out there that demand free labour from volunteers - of course there are; I maintain and have contributed to a few open source projects myself so I know all too well what that’s like.

However, I would say those folks are a very small (albeit vocal and annoying) minority. The vast, vast majority of users simply dismiss Linux/GIMP/Whatever because it’s not suitable for them. They don’t go screaming into GitHub demanding features, they don’t post on Lemmy that the software sucks or otherwise create a fuss, they just gravitate towards the stuff that works for them (usually something proprietary) with the least friction.

Yeah you’re right, it’s the users that are at fault.

I think your response is unintentionally proving my point lol

Yup and honestly the hostility those users get when mentioning it is the same reason Linux doesn’t get more traction in the mainstream.

When a lot of users expect software to work in a particular way and it doesn’t, you change the software - if you insult, belittle or otherwise expect the user to change their working habits then you’re going to have a bad time and be all shocked Pikachu when the user doesn’t use the software.

Apple is (was lol) the most valuable company on the planet because they understood that the user experience is the absolute most important thing. They are the textbook example of vendor lock in and yet people flock to them because “it just works”.

Docker is a great example because podman basically is a drop in replacement.

Came here to say this, Gmail search has been basically broken for me for years. The preview suggestions when typing in a search query have been more accurate for me than the actual search.

I have a couple of old emails from 2020 that always appear in search results no matter what I search for.

How? Isn’t that what’s being discussed here, that too make bitmap shapes there isn’t a dedicated tool for it, instead you have to do multi-step workarounds.

Maybe? The person I was responding to was making a direct comparison that GIMP is bitmap only and insinuated that shapes are only vectors.

Bioshock was a cut down version of the “shock” gameplay - no inventory management, much more linear path, etc.

I remember at the time people complained that it was “dumbed down for console”.

I still enjoyed it though, but I can see why veterans of the genre would feel things are missing or fall short while newcomers would be blown away.

Men are also gay for going down on women, for some reason.

Why does a shape tool have to mean vectors are involved?

Why can’t I just draw some bitmaps in different shapes?

Sea urchins? We have those on land, too, they’re called land sea urchins.

He quit. He’s the best at quitting drugs, he’s quit them hundreds of times.

Yeah I think your problem was trying to use ~ in a path. That’s a bash thing, not a linux thing - slightly pedantic distinction for many but worth knowing about in case future applications give you a similar problem.

Don’t set it to your home path, set the path explicitly. That’ll be what it’s complaining about, the ~.

It shouldn’t really matter where you’ve got your files as long as they’re mounted on a standard path. Maybe try creating a symlink from where your media is to a standard path like /mnt/media or something?