If the scale would not be consistent, the results is actual worse. The whole political spectrum is moving towards the right. Traditional left wing parties here in Germany doing right wing stuff is getting normal.

And I don’t see any left party in the U.K. or U.S. parliaments.

We are leasing our cars.

Regarding the feel: The car does feel surprisingly light. Besides his 2.2 metric tons.

At least here in Europe, the Tesla superchargers work with the car.

Not sure if this generation is already available in the US. I am german, so BMW is a natural choice ;).

Currently, BMW is using the same base for combustion and electric cars to safe costs ans be more flexible how to fit the chassis. That may be a reason for the success.

Nor sure how the price in the US is, the list price for my nearly fully equipped i5 is around 90k€. The only thing I am missing is the pneumatic dampeners. They come only with red or blue breaks, and company policy does not allow for “racing looks”.

I just got my BMW i5. The car is provided by my employer. But I would buy it myself. It is well thought out, has a usable dashboard l, head up und so much convenient stuff.

Also, the build quality is great. Compared to the garbage provided by tesla it is a different world

We are using relativ old Hardware, old thinkpads. They would not be able to run Windows 10 or 11 bare metal ;)

This does not help with Ruida Controllers and fiber Lasers. Both things I have at my company and we don’t have any Windows System.

That is such a shame. And since we need to talk over usb, wine will not work either 😞

There is one alternative: anti monopoly legislation. Maybe, some day, if the EU gets their heads out of their asses, throw their privacy braking chat monitor out of the window, and start thinking again. In 30-40 years maybe

This is true. But in reality, it still works.

And yes, the expansion of their Ecosystem is an issue. But to be honest: the cloud version works, and if I get a docx that is broken in Libreoffice, I use 365. At least I have this option.

It’s a complicated topic with no real solution

Windows is an industry standard. And so is office. As long as we treat it as such. If we want things to change we have to go against such standards.

The big difference between Office and Photoshop is: Microsoft opened their file format. And has support for open standards.

Adobe locked their eco system down to build a monopoly. This is not gimps fault. It is 100% on Adobe.

While the outcome is the same, I would love to see a different wording: nothing is an alternative to Photoshop, because Adobe has a monopoly.

So, if you are in a company that uses Gimp, and you want to use PS, it is still gimp’s fault that this will not work?

I think some parts are just a question of perspective. I am not a GFX person. But I have friends that work in this field. One of them starter learning with gimp. And he constantly is ranting about photoshop at work. He claims the interface of PS is garbage, support for some obscure file format is not even there and so on.

So, I think it depends on what your are used to.

For the documentation: yes! And raw image support is an issue to. Mostly because of proprietary bullshit standards, but yes. This is missing.

Does this make gimp to a shit software? No

You see, I answered your question. Now, where is the answer you promised? Let me guess, you don’t have any?

The answer is simple, Gimp is the only “full featured” photoshop replacement. And the os doesn’t matter for this. There is no alternative in windows besides gimp. Apples products also fall short.

And now, why is gimp shit?

You started with “gimp is shit”, so why not provide reasons for it?

Or is this the apple vs android, coffee vs tea, stick vs automatic kind of subjective argument?

What other products on windows compete with photoshop in your opinion? I don’t get your reason>!!<

This is a reason, but it has nothing to do with alternatives. It would still hold true if you have 8 gimp and one photoshop users

Factual reasons for this please. Besides the horrible, privacy braking, AI stuff, what can photoshop do that gimp can not?

Didn’t even see this part. Sure. Scp, a native Linux tool, has no gui. A sysadmin that can not use a console is no sysadmin. What a piece of bullshit

There us so much wrong with this article. From installing a fucking browser via flatpack, over ignoring the fact that office 365 is a thing to the fact that there are alternatives to Adobe.

Sure, not everything is perfect right now, and people have to learn new stuff.

I have migrated multiple people to fedora in the last two years. And guess what, regardless of type or age of user, they had no troubles with it to this day. They use gimp, play, have browsers with password managers, and write office documents. Yes. MS office.

Articles like this are one reason why people hesitate to make the switch. Doompainting, that’s all it is.

And what the hell are you talking about vrr? Kde, sway and hyperland support it for years now under wayland. Gnome still does not have it, but that is gnome.

And if more distributions would not per default use gnome, such misconceptions wouldn’t exist in the first place.

Lemmy.ml got overrun by new users. The instance seems to be to small for this rapid influx. That will most likely change. Maybe if some users can donate some money for bigger servers ;)