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Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

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311 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 11 Dec 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jrm4 ◴[12 Dec 25 00:15 UTC] No.46239281[source]▶
I'll die on the proverbial hill that the absolute worst instance of this has always been GIMP, which could have perhaps eaten Adobe's lunch MANY years ago.

It was and perhaps still is, a solid competitor to Photoshop, but any unfamiliar grownup is, quite reasonably, going to never ever ever trust anything to do serious work with a name like that.

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1. Arcuru ◴[12 Dec 25 00:31 UTC] No.46239390[source]▶
I agree GIMP is a bad name, but is it really a 'solid' competitor to Photoshop? My impression has been that it was never close to being competitive on features. I've only used either of them very briefly so I may be wildly wrong though.
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2. necovek ◴[12 Dec 25 02:56 UTC] No.46240365[source]▶
IIRC, it was too expensive to make Gimp support non-RGB color spaces needed for professional image editing.

I use it semi-regularly and it does a great job for me, and most of UX is clear and obvious (high DPI support is lacking). But I haven't used Photoshop since the 90s (or Aldus PhotoStyler before it was acquired by Adobe ;)).