For some reason I do find GIMP easier to use them photoshop tho
I am the same. I tried Photoshop and bazillion of tools didn’t help when making a simple picture, while GIMP could do that with relatively easier steps.
Edit: grammar, apologies.
“Software I’m used to is easier for me than software I have no experience with.”
What a fantastic insight.
GIMP being free to just download from their site, and still being used far less (even by novices) than paid or pirated Photoshop really tells the whole story.
The average lemmy user compared to the general public is just far more used to trading away quality to stay with Free and Open-Source Software, to the point of sometimes apparently being blind to the mainstream option’s appeal.
“Whatever I use is objectively better and y’all just blind and an average hivemind bot”
Something being free to download doesn’t help if the paid software is so ingrained into culture, both popular and professional, that it practically has a monopoly. If you want to get work as an artist working with other people, you’ll want to learn the industry standard, not a niche program.
That’s all aside from whether gimp actually is or isn’t better, I just think the argument make no sense.
