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Re:Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes by pjmlp on Sunday February 16, 2025 @06:00AM (#43067149)
As is tradition, all threads about open source talk about how great alternatives to commercial tools they happen to be, and how we should all shame ourselves only by thinking in using commercial software, without any consideration why we use them in first place.
Re:Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin – Resources and Notes by ziml77 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:12AM (#43069128)
Effectively what I was going to say. People are way too hung up on making open source software into a moral crusade that they completely blind themselves to the legitimate complaints about gaps between the open source and commercial options. They will say something like "well I don't need that feature" or "I never noticed a problem with that" and just overall get very defensive instead of simply acknowledging that the use cases of others may be different or that they have different tolerances for quirks in the software.