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It's so tiring...
Use the circle selection tool, mark an area, fill it with a solid colour/gradient/texture or morph it further or stroke the path to create a hollow circle
So many options that amount to more than just a shape tool.
Unintuitive.
I heard of photoshop when I was 13 and I installed a pirated version, just started clicking around and I always found what I wanted in a minute.
10 Years later, I switch 100% to Linux, I have to do some light design work, I open gimp - I CLICK AROUND FOR HALF AN HOUR FOR SOMETHING SIMPLE - can't find it to save my life. Give up and google it, it gives me a reply like yours "just go to a completely unrelated menu to conjure a hack out of your ass that barely resembles what you originally intended to do".
Fuck that UX man. I am so glad pirated photoshop works well in wine nowadays and I have a VM with a legit Adobe suite if I ever need to actually whip up my license for some reason (fuck adobe as well btw.)
I pray that one day there is a real competitor that works natively on Linux. I pay, take my hard earned money every month, whatever it takes, just make it intuitive and reach near feature parity with PS.
If anybody is still reading, sorry for venting, the GIMPs always trigger me, have a nice day.
Try krita it has such things :D
yeah. actualy is there anything in gimp you can't do in krita?
Cry about a missing shape tool?
Laugh at the absolutely terrible name?
Have you tried photopea?
Yeah, but it runs in a browser, chokes on larger projects and Ivan is an asshole.
If you want something intuitive, use Paint or pen and paper.
that's dumb. you should just draw on the wall of the cave
If I wanted to learn some arcane bullshit to draw a circle Id just learn C++.
Sorry best I can do is a programmable turtle that moves around as a pen.
Aww, the poor turtle is trying their very best.
Same energy as "so tired of idiots who want right click>new file on gnome, are you too stupid to open the terminal, cd 20 times and use the shittiest text editor ever to create a new file and save it and then open nautilus and navigate to the same directory, or something?"
Comparable to driving from washington to argentina instead of taking a plane (for those who don't know, there are no roads connecting north to south america). This is literally the attitude why there will never be year of the linux.
Spoiler: most people don't care about "year of the linux desktop". Linux works for me and those losers on windows be damned. Why should we cater to them? Especially since they won't put any effort into learning linux.
More users = more support for programs and hardware on linux, more open source and freedom policies rather than maximising shareholder value. Less and less troubleshooting and figuring out why your shit you really need to work doesn't work.
It benefits everyone, even the people who are in denial about good ux.
I mean id you think navigating through folders in terminal and using other shitty tools to create a template file is mentally stimulating or difficult task and teaches anything about linux other than that linux is unfinished and has massive oversights, you are not as clever as you think you are.
Good UX benefits everyone.
I wouldn't have switched personally if Linux ui was still shit. I put the effort into learning because the initial experience was good enough to warrent delving deeper into it.
That's several more steps than it ought to take. Including the step of having to look this up, because you'd never intuitively figure this out on your own.
Wouldn't that simply create a bitmap circle, though? The advantage of shapes in Photoshop is that they are vectors.
Select circle -> save selection as path. There's your vector. I'd, however, use some vector app for vector graphics, independent of the OS I'm using.
Well itβs still a good idea to have shapes saved as vectors in a bitmap program. So resizing doesnβt affect the shape.
I just let this stand on it's own.
In case you don't understand why your post needs to stand on it's own, vectors in bitmap program are vectors until exported as bitmaps. They are very useful.
All vectors will be bitmaps when displayed on a screen.