Let’s stop debating the GnuImp Manipulation Program

The GIMP will never magically become software beloved by artists—not without radically changing its culture, and making the artists the ones who call the shots. The GIMP will remain what it has always set out to be: a tinkerer’s toolbox, more concerned with the purity of its software politics than with garnering a loyal userbase of photographers and designers.

But because everyone insisted to poise it as a viable Photoshop killer, Linux is left with an obvious hole in its software offering, a hole nobody managed to fill with their own challenger.

↫ Aria Salvatrice

Excellent article, and spot-on conclusion.

source https://www.osnews.com/story/145997/lets-stop-debating-the-gnuimp-manipulation-program/