[KnuthIsGod]

Krita is so much more accessible than GIMP.

Only Gimp devs would love Gimps interface.

Just the existence of Gimp seems like so much effort flushed down the toilet because of someone's bad, bad taste and incredibly poor user interface design

[mghackerlady]

I think the biggest problem is they shoved it all into one window when it was designed to be a multi-window editor

[hootz]

But how good is Krita with photo manipulation and composites? I don't want to paint, I want to edit images.

[Jach]

Krita is not very good for photo manipulation. Even basic stuff like rectangle select and selection manipulation is painful. But on a project I used Krita, Gimp, and Inkscape all at the same time, and it was fine. Different tools for different purposes. Though with Gimp 3 having better font/text behavior, and overall allowing to build a pipeline of effects instead of immediately applying them (aka non-destructive editing), I could probably drop Inkscape now.