[Xaphiosis]

People keep rolling out this defence over and over in this thread, but look at those who started on anything else. For example, I've never used Photoshop, but moved from MS paint level to Paint Shop Pro (I think 6? 7?) and had to learn that from scratch. The experience was mostly intuitive, things were more or less where you expected and did what you expected, and there was solid help available under the help menu.

I have tried to use GIMP on dozens of occasions, and it always surprises me in the worst ways, or bounces me off to search the web for a howto. Simple things like: I want to select a rectangle, move/resize the selection, then crop the image to that selection. Or I want to arrange two images side-by-side for comparison, crop to the smaller one, to export a side-by-side. Pretty much every attempt at doing something other than colour curve adjustment has resulted in a faceplant. Eventually I gave up switched to Krita.

[mixmastamyk]

I started with PSP and Gimp's crop tool works as expected. Drag where you want, adjust edges, then mouse click in the center.

Overall, it works similarly to MacPaint from '84 and even has the same CUA keybindings.