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IDK, I have no horse in this race. Use the tools you're comfortable with, but be open to exploring new ones.
And don't try to get quirky when making new software, people settled on specific UI designs and layouts for a reason. (7/7)
Photoshop et al are, regretfully, the Industry Standard ™️, and a lot of people are familiar with how they work.
Which means taking notes from them is not a bad idea. I mean Blender has been doing that for ages with each successive UI refresh. There's no need to reinvent wheels here. (4/7)
"But TC I want the same program to do everything!" Fair, but that's also kind of a shitty situation.
If the program you use for everything goes bad (Becomes subscription based, gets abandoned, etc) you're turbofucked. Meanwhile having separate tools for separate tasks prevents this. (🫲6/7🫱)
It's legitimately possible to learn GIMP's UI, it's not an obtuse program or anything. It is, however, pretty different from other software in the same segment. Which doesn't have to be bad per se;
HOWEVER standardization and familiarity is in fact a thing that helps with usability! (2/7)
It's me. I'm the reason for the declining birth rate. I refuse to elaborate on how. But it was me all along. Y'all welcome.
GIMP also has the extra issue that it's pitted against the entirety of Photoshop when it is, very openly, an Image Editor only.
You wouldn't use GIMP for digital art (Especially when Krita is right there!); GIMP exists to quickly rotate those phone photos that came off in portrait instead. (5/7)
Standardization is the reason we still use floppy disks as the save icon everywhere, even if we haven't used the actual disks in decades.
It's what everyone is familiar with, and changing it for no reason would just make the friction of using a program bigger for no reason. (3/7)
There was GIMP UI discourse and that's one of those topics where I admit I can't weight in because I haven't even seen Photoshop in over two decades, so I legitimately don't know how it looks nowadays, or what the average user demands of it.
It's also way more complex than "GIMP UI BAD/GOOD" 🧵(1/7)
did you guys know they still allowed good news
you LITERALLY cannot sit here and expose yourself to constant horrors all the time because you will break your mind
There is still joy in this world. find it. because that joy will give you the strength go "Wait no, FUCK this."
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The amount of solar power generated in the U.S. is continuing to grow.
