These UX systems should be standard across all distros.

Anyone who expects Linux to be like MacOS where you basically only have 1 way to do anything- is going to be frustrated. The thing that you find annoying about Linux is the thing Linux users love about it.

The great thing about Linux is that almost nothing is guaranteed to be “standard across all distros”. Different people have different use cases, needs, and preferences. If you take the time to figure out how to make Linux look and behave the way you want it to, it’s has all the advantages of MacOS, but it’s even better because you can fine tune everything to be exactly how you like it and not be stuck with whatever they give you.

I guarantee there is a way to get the exact functionality you are looking for in any Linux distro, in fact there are probably a half a dozen different ways or more to accomplish it, but it’s more than likely a couple of toggles in the settings menu.

a need to install apps using terminal.

I installed Pop!_OS on my PC over a year ago and I haven’t needed to open up a terminal window to do anything the entire time. I did install a newer version of the app store, but even that I did by using the old app store. I do open my terminal sometimes because I love learning different ways of doing things and understanding how my OS works, but it is by no means mandatory.

It’s not the nightmare you describe but it might take a little adjusting to, just like with anything else. There are also many different distro’s from very beginner friendly to building a custom OS from scratch. As long a you have the time and patience to do a little research, you could find a distro that would be perfect for your needs- or at the very least one that could be with minimal tweaking.

One mistake I see some people make is not starting out with a beginner friendly distro. They think they are too advanced for that so they go for something designed for people with more experience. There is nothing at all wrong with going with a ‘beginner’ distro. You can do anything you want to do on any distro if you know what you are doing.

It’s not for everyone, some people don’t care about customization or learning anything new or free and open source software, and that’s fine. For everyone else there’s *nix.

I didn’t either.

I’ll be in my bunk.

It’s the same thing. The workers work, management just makes sure the workers work.

You’re the hero the company doesn’t deserve, but the one it needs right now.

Put a lock on the wheel and charge people $0.99 to temporarily unlock it.

Consumer: It say’s here I can subscribe to ‘Wheel Pro’ for only $69.99/month and I will automatically receive all the latest features the second they come out!

Noob: I just use WIMP, it’s free and does 99% of what Wheel Pro does. I don’t need all those extra features.

Consumer: Psh, WIMP is ugly and you can’t even adjust the tire pressure by millipascals.

Noob: They added that feature in March.

Consumer: I NEED IT FOR WORK OK!

It probably could, and don’t call me Shirley.

What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa?

It works fine. It’s a perfectly good wheel.

Hey where is Underwaterbob?

He’s trapped in that Jigsaw room.

The door is unlocked though?

Yeah, but there is a wheel in there and UWB won’t leave until he figures out if there is a way to improve it.

Has any one asked him to?

No

Will he get paid to improve it?

No

What does the wheel do?

You roll it out of the way so you can exit the room.

Ah, I see what you are saying. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

I guess I’m confused what that licence has to do with AI though.

I know onlinepersona put AI on the end of that link, but from what I can tell it’s just a normal copy left license.

I guess some conceivably could put such a licence on an AI generated thing, but I’m not sure they would be able to enforce it unless the model wasn’t trained on stolen data.

They might be able to copyright the prompt though.

Idk, we will probably have to rely on the courts to determine something like that, which means we will get the worst possible outcome.

You know they steal books by the library right?

Who steals books from the library? The Creative Commons Org? I tried looking it up online and can’t really find what you are referring to.

Do you mean that they literally take books from the library and never return them, or do they copy library books an slap a new license on them? Are the books that they do that to in the public domain?

I’m not sure why it would bother you that some people are satisfied with a piece of free software. That seems kinda weird to me tbh.

GIMP version 3.0, which was released on March 16th, introduced non-destructive editing. It supports non destructive editing with gradients through the use of layer effects and masks.

Not sure what you mean by ‘better selection tools’, but the ones they do have work just fine for how I use the program.

I am not a professional graphic designer, and I have never printed an image I made or tweaked with GIMP, so I’m not sure I would benefit from CMYK color space editing.

I’m sure you will say it is also shit, and I don’t have as much experience with it as I do GIMP but Inkscape is an open source vector graphics program that a lot of people seem to like, so it’s nice that we have that option for people whom it would be sufficient.

I’m not against people paying for programs they need to do their jobs, but I wish more people who believe in software freedom were willing to donate to Open Source projects that they use, or even ones that have the potential to be competitive, but aren’t quite there yet.

If professionals who rely on pro software, but also believe in software freedom would donate a fraction of what they spend on Pro software to projects like the GIMP, you would undoubtedly see a lot of the missing features show up in them.

As it stands most people either use the software and don’t donate, or pay $165 and up for software and then compare it to software that costs $0, as if that is any kind of a fair comparison.

My point was simply that most people aren’t professionals, and paying almost $700/year seems like overkill for people who want to occasionally create a meme or retouch a digital photo.

For people that absolutely have to have Pro software, clearly it’s not going to be competitive, but I sure am glad that it’s there for people who aren’t pros.

I’ve never used Affinity, but I used Photoshop plenty back in the day.

What features am I missing out on exactly?

I do realize that yes, that’s why I offered a couple of solutions to things that had nothing to do with that. Like thinking you had made a mistake or being afraid of messing up another OS on your machine.

I’m not trying to talk down to you, I’m trying to understand what your issue is, that’s why I’m asking questions.

So why was it that you needed to cancel the installation?

Ive never tried installing Mint, but it’s based on Ubuntu which have installed many times. Unless the installer is radically different it asks you a bunch of questions first, keyboard layout, timezone, whether or not it will be a dual boot or clean install etc. It typically doesn’t actually make any changes to the system until all that is set up and you select install.

The only exception to that I can think of is if you got to the point where you can configure your partitions in a dual boot scenario. If you made a mistake during that process, I can see it messing up your install if you then back out.

Other than that the only way I can think of that might bork you system is if you actually started installing the OS, and then attempted to cancel, at which point it makes perfect sense to me that would mess things up.

The only thing I really take issue with is acting as if cancelling an install of an OS halfway through the process is like such a common thing that enough people would run into the same issue that it would turn people off from installing Linux.

I think GIMP is great. It does everything most people need it to do. You just have to take time to learn how to use it, just like with everything else.

Why would you cancel the install half way through, is that something you normally do?

If you don’t have the time to install it properly, don’t start the process. If you do have the time see it through.

If you think you have made a mistake and can’t simply back up to the step you think you messed up, just continue. Most things can be fixed after install. Worst case scenario, you will just have to reinstall.

If you backed out because you were afraid of messing up your windows partition, I highly recommend backing up all your data before you install in the first place.

In what world is that normal?

The world where the vast majority of people don’t cancel installing an OS halfway through the process.

I can understand being frustrated, but you have to understand that your particular experience is not the norm. I’d be pretty confident saying that less than 1% of people will back out of an install half way through it or have that much of an issue installing (unless it’s Arch). So it’s not something that really needs to be fixed before people can start using Linux.

I didn’t even have that many problems setting up a dual boot with Windows in 2006 when I was a total newbie to Linux, and I had to figure out how partitioning and swap files worked.

Just ask for help in a respectful manner on your distros forum and someone will very likely be happy to assist you.

I didn’t realize that was how her name was spelled! That is fucking hilarious 😂