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Weaknesses of Open Source applications by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/16/2012, 2:53am PDT
Oom Shnibble wrote:

Besides the fact that they are fat fucking disgusting, anti-social freaks of nature.

So I've been trying to learn GIMP and I was amazed to see no simple tool for shape creation. So I searched for a line tutorial (Because Opensource fuckups need to make everything so user unfriendly that you need to wade through a fucking badly written piece of shit manual to learn to do anything. Who the fuck draws straight lines in a paint program anyway?)


I thought The Gimp would be a good program but I found it was excessively complicated and it also didn't operate within the rules of the system where it is running. When you activate a program on Windows, typically it's either a console application or a windowed application. Gimp starts up at least one console window as well as the windows where you work with the image. First this seems sloppy, and second, I would love to figure out how to do it. I used to use Free Basic for writing quickie programs for things like creating files or doing changes to large blocks of text. It created console applications and that was fine. Then I found that Free Pascal now has Lazarus which allows you the option of creating a console application or a windowed application so I switched. (I'd have stayed with Visual Basic but Microsoft took a wonderful programming language that allowed you to do amazing things and bastardized it into a Java/C# clone.) Well Free Pascal can create a console app or a windowed app, but not one that does both.

Actually, The Gimp isn't really a paint program like MSPaint, it's closer to something like Photoshop because it supports things you can't do in regular paint programs, including layers, transparent regions and other functions.

I've actually tended to gravitate toward the program Inkscape, which isn't a paint program, but a vector drawing program. One advantage is that you get smooth resizing of vector images at any reduction or enlargement, as opposed to pixelated or fuzzy jagged resizing when you try to resize a standard image. Plus SVG files are text files, so if you have an image and you want to change something you can edit it in a text editor.

Oom Shnibble wrote:

This is what I found Piece of crap fuckfuckMcfuckfuck [Copy of quote deleted]
Nice, pleasant way to introduce new people to use your crap, unusable software cuntMcCuntflaps. Such snark aimed at people who are confused by your incompetence.

Also, apparently they have an easy to use tool for Plasma Cloud effects but nothing to draw a rectangle or ellipe without having to go through three fucking layers of menus. Because why start developing useful functionality when you can show off with cool shit nobody ever uses.

YOUR FUCKING MOTHERS WOULD KILL THEMSELVES IF THEY KNEW WHAT YOU BECAME!

Cunts.

Open Source software gets developed to "scratch the itch" of the developer who wants a tool to do something. Which causes a problem, a lot of programmers are not good documentors or good writers. When it comes to documentation most programmers are horrible at setting it up, making it accurate or maintaining it. Documentation for open source applications is usually the weakest part of the product. Sometimes the software is good enough that you can use it without a manual but often the manual is weak or nonexistent. It takes a lot of users and a lot of people who can write using the product who are willing to do the writing that any documentation gets done.

Most of their mothers probably don't even know computers that well and probably can't even use the software they wrote, so it's unlikely they'd suicide. I mean, the only reason I'm so versatile with computers is I got started back when we worked on punch cards and followed the curve through terminals, mini computers, then micro computers, then PCs, then Windows and so on.
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This is why I hate Opensource/Linux monkeys. by Oom Shnibble 05/14/2012, 9:48am PDT NEW
    The two marquee tools in the upper left of the palette are what you want. NT by Draw shape, fill. 05/14/2012, 11:02am PDT NEW
        Thanks by Oom Shnibble 05/14/2012, 11:11am PDT NEW
            Ctrl+. to fill the ellipse with the current active color. NT by http://www.keyxl.com/aaae27c/66/Gim 05/14/2012, 7:22pm PDT NEW
    Re: This is why I hate Opensource/Linux monkeys. by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/14/2012, 8:39pm PDT NEW
    Weaknesses of Open Source applications by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/16/2012, 2:53am PDT NEW
        Re: Weaknesses of Open Source applications by Oom Shnibble 05/16/2012, 3:00am PDT NEW
            Re: Weaknesses of Open Source applications by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/16/2012, 3:14am PDT NEW
                Re: Weaknesses of Open Source applications by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/16/2012, 10:05am PDT NEW
                    Re: Weaknesses of Open Source applications by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/16/2012, 11:16am PDT NEW
                It was good at RAD but the language was fuckawful by Entropy Stew 05/16/2012, 7:09pm PDT NEW
    Oh, I forgot Sendmail and Apache by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 05/16/2012, 3:03am PDT NEW
        God I fucking hate you by Entropy Stew 05/16/2012, 12:45pm PDT NEW
            Fucking ditto. NT by The Happiness Engine 05/16/2012, 4:32pm PDT NEW
            *AS* fucking sendmail. AS. NT by Entropy Stew 05/16/2012, 7:02pm PDT NEW
 
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