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gjsman-1000 | on: Adobe's new image rotation tool is one of the most impressive AI tools seen
> A few years ago it could be argued that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable

To a Linux user, yes. To a professional, it was always a cruel joke, it was never close, even a few years ago. It's like saying Notepad++ is a functional IDE, or Kdenlive is a functional replacement for DaVinci Resolve.

I cannot stress this enough: Actual professionals do not think GIMP is a viable replacement, in any way, and never have.

jetbalsa | parent | next
GIMP did spawn one kinda good thing, GTK was made because Peter Mattis disliked Motif and wrote a replacement and called it the GIMP toolkit
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gjsman-1000 | parent
I would also like to add (as a separate comment though, this will be controversial):

Some would say that GIMP, Inkscape, and Darktable aren't really competitive yet because they haven't had enough investment. If we invested in them enough, and managed them well, they could be like Blender.

GIMP has been in development since 1995. Photopea was initially released in 2013, has been solely developed by one person, and is a far-and-away better Photoshop competitor. The projects themselves are mismanaged. GIMP should (frankly) be abandoned and completely reset, in my opinion, as being a failed attempt at salvaging old code forever. Wisdom is knowing when to keep pushing - and when to give up.