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by freedomben 19 days ago
> World would be in a better place if GIMP hadn't ever existed, the existence of GIMP is part of why we don't have an actual viable alternative.

Wow, that's a wild statement. I think you might be right. Though GIMP was responsible for GTK, which is now a critical part of most linux systems. I wonder where we'd be if not for GTK? Qt everywhere maybe?

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> Qt everywhere maybe?

As someone who picked the KDE side decades ago, I have to say that would be for the best.