Its not even (just) the UI. It is the outright capabilities. Like with a lot of these kinds of tools, photoshop is… kind of freaking insane in its capabilities. Which is why it is so funny to hear the art/graphics community talk about how “AI can’t do our jobs” when so many of the tools they rely on are AI based.
A good, linux friendly, answer (that also kind of highlights the issue but…) is to compare nano versus vim/emacs. For 99% of people, nano is just as capable and arguably better in a lot of cases. But if you want something that is closer to an IDE/operating system, you are looking at vim/emacs.
Or, one that is less contrived: if you are writing a letter or even a short report, MS Word/Libre Write (?)/Google Docs is perfectly suitable and, arguably, a lot better. If you are writing a scholarly article or even a book? You want something where typesetting is a first class citizen and that means Latex or whatever the publishing industry likes. There are ways to set up references and figures correctly in a WYSIWYG rich text editor like MS Word but… it is very much not the same thing and you are spending a lot of time trying to pretend you are using the right tools.
Thank you for mentioning and subsequently introducing this to me. Definitely a nice modification of GIMP. I’m used to GIMP’s interface from years of use, but this is simply much more intuitive.
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Its not even (just) the UI. It is the outright capabilities. Like with a lot of these kinds of tools, photoshop is… kind of freaking insane in its capabilities. Which is why it is so funny to hear the art/graphics community talk about how “AI can’t do our jobs” when so many of the tools they rely on are AI based.
A good, linux friendly, answer (that also kind of highlights the issue but…) is to compare nano versus vim/emacs. For 99% of people, nano is just as capable and arguably better in a lot of cases. But if you want something that is closer to an IDE/operating system, you are looking at vim/emacs.
Or, one that is less contrived: if you are writing a letter or even a short report, MS Word/Libre Write (?)/Google Docs is perfectly suitable and, arguably, a lot better. If you are writing a scholarly article or even a book? You want something where typesetting is a first class citizen and that means Latex or whatever the publishing industry likes. There are ways to set up references and figures correctly in a WYSIWYG rich text editor like MS Word but… it is very much not the same thing and you are spending a lot of time trying to pretend you are using the right tools.
Thank you for mentioning and subsequently introducing this to me. Definitely a nice modification of GIMP. I’m used to GIMP’s interface from years of use, but this is simply much more intuitive.