when majority of people saying “Photoshop has this, we should do this as well” are not actually saying GIMP should create a total carbon-copy
And I see with my own eyes how some people are saying exactly that. Sometimes they wrap it into something like “photoshop is intuitive industry standard that takes zero seconds to learn and everyone is born with perfect understanding of it, and everything that isn’t that is an affront to god and actively violates all my senses”. I’m paraphrasing a bit.
There’s always small group of people that prefer certain software and refuse to change, they might even hate when the software gets updated.
Heck, some people even still use obsolete creative softwares despite the development company is dead for almost 20 years.
I conclude that as I’ve been helping people setting their computer as well as teaching people to use various softwares for 15 years :)
I always try to know what things they want to do and their skill level, then recommending software that might be suitable for them. It can be proprietary, but most of the time I tried to recommend FOSS alternative instead.
Hey, I do you one better, I worked professionally as a person teaching people to use various softwares, but it only taught me that we know even less about what people think and how people operate, than we thought we know.
And I see with my own eyes how some people are saying exactly that. Sometimes they wrap it into something like “photoshop is intuitive industry standard that takes zero seconds to learn and everyone is born with perfect understanding of it, and everything that isn’t that is an affront to god and actively violates all my senses”. I’m paraphrasing a bit.
That’s why I said “majority of people.”
There’s always small group of people that prefer certain software and refuse to change, they might even hate when the software gets updated. Heck, some people even still use obsolete creative softwares despite the development company is dead for almost 20 years.
I don’t know what majority of people think. To be fair, you also don’t know that. We can only guess
I conclude that as I’ve been helping people setting their computer as well as teaching people to use various softwares for 15 years :)
I always try to know what things they want to do and their skill level, then recommending software that might be suitable for them. It can be proprietary, but most of the time I tried to recommend FOSS alternative instead.
Hey, I do you one better, I worked professionally as a person teaching people to use various softwares, but it only taught me that we know even less about what people think and how people operate, than we thought we know.