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In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives? (feddit.dk)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start:

RSS and blogs, news vs. social media
XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat
IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc.
Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hard to do anything with GIMP.

Kinda.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've found that Krita is pretty easy to use and does most of the things I would otherwise have to use Photoshop for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My kid uses krita with a drawing tablet, something I'm honestly not sure is even possible with gimp.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Seriously considering paying $10/mo for Photoshop just so I can replace my gimp with being encombured with bloat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, In general I hate the rent-your-software trend, but 10 bucks a month for Photoshop isn't bad and the FOSS alternatives are just not up to snuff for anything other than the most basic of tasks. I'm saying this as somebody who struggled through learning The GIMP years before I ever got my hands on a copy of Photoshop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Check out Photopea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

As much as I want to love it, the UX oh the UX