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GIMPSoftware

Who uses, recommends or left GIMP, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

5 people

Eugen Rochko
German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.
uses

When I need to touch vector graphics, I use Inkscape. If I need to edit raster images, I use GIMP.

His Uses This interview, on the desktop, peripherals and tools he builds Mastodon with.

2019-04-26·usesthis.com ↗

Matt Cutts
Longtime head of Google's webspam team; later administrator of the United States Digital Service.
uses

For photo editing I use GIMP, and if I need something deeper, my wife has a Mac with Photoshop, Illustrator, and software to make movies and burn DVDs.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: his work machines, running gear and the contents of his travel backpack.

2014-04-03·usesthis.com ↗

Justin Frankel
Software developer; wrote Winamp and now works on the REAPER digital audio workstation.
uses

I'll use GIMP for many image editing tasks (for me, this usually is just making test images for themes, or making small tweaks to existing images). I prefer Photoshop but find it to be ridiculously overpriced, and I am terrible with either of them anyway and will let the professionals make things.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the machines and dev tools behind REAPER.

2012-10-02·usesthis.com ↗

Brad Fitzpatrick
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later co-founded Tailscale.
uses

Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.

His Uses This interview, on his home machines, servers and Linux toolchain.

2011-12-16·usesthis.com ↗

Robert Love
Software engineer who worked on the Linux kernel and the Android platform, and author of Linux Kernel Development and Linux System Programming.
uses

The only apps I run on it are Chrome, iTunes, and GIMP.

His Uses This interview, on the four machines he worked across at Google.

2010-11-02·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.