GIMP development - What’s the point?
People whining about GIMP not being as good as PS don&#x27;t appreciate what life was like on Linux before GIMP existed, or how primitive GIMP was when it first came out.<p>GIMP has advanced leaps and bound over what it once was.<p>I remember for ages PS fans were complaining about how GIMP had a multiple window layout, and how unnecessarily complex that was, and they wanted a single window layout.  So the <i>volunteers</i> who work on GIMP eventually came out with a single window layout.<p>I&#x27;m not a PS user, but I heard that around that time PS changed to a multi-window layout.  Whether that&#x27;s true or not, now I hear complaints from some users that GIMP is not any good because it doesn&#x27;t have a multi-window layout (not realizing that changing it to multi-window layout is as simple as unchecking &quot;Single-window mode&quot; under the &quot;Windows&quot; menu).  Give me a break!<p>Some people will never be satisfied and will never appreciate the hundreds or thousands of man hours of <i>free</i> work that GIMP developers have poured in to this product.<p>Could it be improved?  Of course!  Anything can.  Should they strive to make it better?  Yes.  Feature requests and help are great.  But indignant insults coming from people who didn&#x27;t pay for the development of the product, who don&#x27;t contribute any of their own time to make it better, and who clearly don&#x27;t appreciate the massive achievement that GIMP is just take the cake.  GIMP developers must have skins of steel to put up with this crap year in and year out.