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      • I never understood this one. What kind of course would you be doing that required very expensive paid software, but you didn’t know ahead of time that said software was required. I think the imaginary OP is just an idiot.

        • 11 months

          I personally think that’s the point. It just mocks the Linux Fanboys.

        • 11 months

          It reads to me more as joke than something that tries to sell itself as a true story

    • 11 months

      Does that even run on windows without a bunch of hoop-jumping and some jank-ass chunky qt-style UI elements? I seriously haven’t looked at GIMP in like 25 years.

      • I’ve been using it off and on for over twenty years and it’s never needed more than running the installer to get it working on Windows in that time…

        • 11 months

          Fair enough, I haven’t looked at it at all since I last used linux a couple decades ago, that’s just been my experience with trying to use other linux-native software on windows.