It feels like GIMP was designed with user-hostility in mind. There’s no Paint.net for Linux, so I have to use GIMP from time to time for my gui server job needs. And gosh, I hate the damn thing. Every simple step in it is as hard as you can’t bear.
(No I can’t use Krita for specific reasons and it isn’t much easier anyway)
I always thought this, but used it for a while for work and found it was actually quicker work-flow-wise than Photoshop (though Photoshop was better for photo editing) or Krita (and krita is way better for painting).
It was like, hidden underneath the janky gui, there was actually a lot of thought put into how things work together.
(No I can’t use Krita for specific reasons and it isn’t much easier anyway)