what are the downsides of rooting?

original Mario until lvl 8, cause the princess always fucking is in another castle (if you discount the mass genocide of mushrooms and turtles ofc)!

I call it motivation ( : I mean no offense to GIMP, they’re definitely the ones who broke the monopoly originally. but since the time I started using it like 10 years ago to now with the release of GIMP 3 barely anything has changed, yet there already are quite a few open source alternatives that shine brighter at very specific niches.

God almighty, how come I’m hearing about this for the first time??? this thing basically does everything GIMP does but better. I mean, node-based editor… are you kidding me, it’s incredible!

after a couple of hours of playing, their node editor is still a bit raw (not blender level), but the foundation is very solid. i’m willing to back this project financially (after I use it for a week or so), and I strongly suggest you do too (if you find it similarly useful). we really need more projects like this so that (a) people stop using adobe, and (b) GIMP devs finally realise that to maintain the audience they actually have to do something.

re: Medium I was genuinely curious why people use it, thanks for the clarification.

still as someone who writes only open source codes, it goes a bit against my religion, but I totally understand if your income depends on it! thanks for the text, and for the “friend link”. as promised… ; )

a slightly unrelated question. do the authors at least get paid for posting things on Medium? if not, why do that? I’m unironically curious. it’s a bad platform no matter how you look at it: it’s closed for unregistered readers, it’s typesetting sucks ass… the only reason I could see, is if the authors actually get some of the ad revenue, in which case I’d much rather pay directly to the authors.