Will I be OK updating from the Debian repo?

This is fantastic news.

I find the UI completely fine. But I think a lot of people expect it to be a perfect and direct clone of photoshop that you don’t have to pay for, rather than its own piece of software and are consequently upset when they have to learn how to use it. People forget that they had to learn how to use photoshop as well.

Like you, I’ve asked people to give a specific example of something that is clearly bad about GIMP and either don’t get a proper answer, or they name something from an ancient version.

I only used it to do occasional stuff to my photos that simple photo editors cannot do.

I’m aware I’m not properly answering your question here but it sounds like you might be better off ditching Adobe and using something like GIMP or Krita. I went through a period when I was struggling with my cracked version of photoshop and not getting anything done and discovered it was much more efficient and relaxing to spend a couple of hours learning GIMP.

If you’d rather use photoshop that’s fair enough but I thought I’d just share my experience and offer a nudge in a different direction :)

By the way; which messaging platforms, protocols or ‘services’ are currently supported by Pidgin? I haven’t looked at it in a while.

Was the plugin open source?

Edit: looks like it wasn’t and the incident has prompted more more transparency. Good stuff.

Canada should agree to do it but only on the basis that the US starts paying its way as a member of NATO.

Good idea!

Amazing, I didn’t know that about Ted talks!

This is very good info.

When she’s big enough I plan to set my daughter up with Wikipedia on an offline laptop like this.

When I was little my Grandpa gave me a full set of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica and I used to love it.

AFAIK you can do all of the same things in your browser but I find it simpler, neater and faster to have all my Wikipedia tabs and bookmarks in their own application. It’s themed for GNOME too and is easy on the eye which is pleasant.

there is service-specific tool to do that i.e tidal-dl for Tidal (hi-fi music service)

Do you know of any others?

Does that mean that Microsoft pay the interest and underwrite defaults? Or are they peddling debt? I hope it’s the former.

At the amounts quoted it would be reasonable to just give them the money. It’s also very effective.

Calibre is fantastic software.

Someone always has the money. That’s who will be buying things.

You could do it over big roads too.

but GIMP simply isn’t aimed at the same type of work Photoshop and AF Photo are

Look at the home page of GIMP’s website, where it says “Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done.” If it’s not aimed at the same things photoshop and affinity are then what is it aimed at? Music production? Video editing?

GIMP feels much more of a hobbyist tool to quickly make a simple edit and that’s done.

Why then are there so many transformation tools and filters and channel, selection and vector operations, icc profile management, scripting, etc etc etc? Just because you haven’t learnt how to do something in GIMP doesn’t mean it can’t be done.

And like the other comment said, it has no non-destructive editing at all

This point has been valid for a long time unfortunately, however GIMP does now have non-destructive editing. You can check it out in their development version.

I know you and me are not going to agree on this but I think it’s important to update and debunk misinformed statements, for the benefit of others.

Yes, bring on 3.0! I checked out the development release and layer effects are working well. Happy days for us :)

Apparently there are some major colour upgrades coming in 3.0 too, so good news for printing.

For most use cases of Photoshop, GIMP is not an alternative at all.

Have you used GIMP seriously? And I don’t mean installing it, getting confused because the menu layout is different to Photoshop and giving up in disgust after 10 mins.

I will readily admit that Photoshop is currently more capable and faster in some cases but to say GIMP is not an alternative is ridiculous.

My condolences on having had to work for the Mail!

My mum really wants to use her smartphone but we’ve been struggling to teach her.

Do you have any tips?