:sighs: The GIMP is so hard to use... it just segfaulted on me because I was trying to open a file while closing one at the same time. I had the files saved so nothing was lost, but that's just wrong. Plus it's slow, the routines are horrendously slow especially. Bucket fill tool? Slower n' molten glass. It's probably because the computer store Best Buy cheated me by giving me a bad hard drive and not telling me about it. For those acquainted with hdparm, 1.2mB/s disk i/o. >.<
But regardless of bad hard disks, I'm horribly disappointed. Most applications ported between X/Gtk and MS Windows aren't that striking in speed/performance difference. The GIMP performs quite smoothly and cleanly on my Windows partition, and has more features to boot. :sighs: Everyone loves Windows I suppose. At any rate, my attempts at getting my comic in progress (I haven't re-added the dialog yet... was trying to do so when the GIMP crashed on me so pitifully just now.
I should steal Adobe Photoshop or something... sadly unless you're a professional artist, the very tools to transform sketches and inks into electronic format for sharing online are denied you. And even professional artists pay out of the tailhole, since Adobe is a bunch of backstabbing robber barons, just like RealMedia, Microsoft, SCO, and somewhat Macromedia. This flash animation requires the 1337 flash plugin, not your stupid, ancient, old, outdated, yesterday's plugin. To view this movie simply send Macromedia $49.999 (NOT $50!) plus tax and we'll set you up with Shockwave~ave~ave~ave...)
Okay, granted the latest and greatest Shockwave plugin costs nothing, and is free to download. But guess what? ...you guessed it: only for Windoze. Among the companies I have mentioned so far, I think my greatest respect (which isn't much) is for Macromedia.
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