It is endlessly frustrating that companies have universally decided that they won’t let people say “no” to stuff, ever. There are no longer options to reject stupid-ass new “features”, only postponement until next time you open the app/website/program. They’ll continue pestering you for the rest of your life. I realize that my frustration may be a little over-zealous, but we deal with these interfaces dozens of times per day and this is user hostile behavior. There isn’t really an option to just use another service or program, since the entire technology landscape has been commandeered by a few major corporations, and they all enact the same shitty things as a group.

  • AnonymousLlama
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    72 years ago

    Heaps of stuff that’s positioned as the “alternative of X” feels like garbo. For example when I’m forced to use Pinta editor / GIMP over Photoshop when I’m using Linux. I get the expectation can’t be to have feature parity but some of these alternatives feel really poor

    • RoboRay
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      2 years ago

      Well, to be fair, Pinta is a clone of Paint.NET. It has never claimed to be an alternative to Photoshop.

        • Elise
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          12 years ago

          Ya I use it all the time. It’s a different beast from gimp. To me it felt easier for drawing.

      • pogosort
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        12 years ago

        AFAIK, Krita’s more oriented towards 2D illustration than image editing.

        • Elise
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          12 years ago

          It definitely felt like an improvement over gimp to me when it comes to drawing. In fact I also use it for editing now, but I imagine gimp might be better for that.