FOSS PRODUCTIVITY APPLICATIONS ARE SHITE

I'm a shy anime girl.

I WROTE A FUKEN COMPILER

>>60666224
owo

>foss
>productive

The freedom of FOSS allows develops to do as they wish, enjoy programming, and not have to pander to illiterate normalfags (GUIs - what a joke) nor sell a product.
>If someone caring only about usability and productivity was given the choice between, for example, gimp and photoshop, they'd go with photoshop 9 out of 10 times
Is there any empirical proof than that GIMP is any less usable for the majority of needs? Because it seems the only people claiming PS is superior is those that have put many hours into learning PS, then complain that GIMP is not PS (GIMP never touted itself as a PS clone to begin with), and put zero effort into learning GIMP. Of course GIMP is unusable if you don't bother to learn it, and compare it to a difference program.

>>60666274
NOBODY NEEDS YOUR FUCKEN COMPILER SHOVE IT UP YOUR BUTT

>>60666301
SHUT UP CIA NIGGER REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I think at least part of the issue is that you need a better UI to make the program easier to learn, whereas a lot of the cluster fuck UIs may be harder to learn, but they're potentially better once they've been mastered, and some of the autists who are making these programs are the type that(especially given that they're making these programs) don't need the pretty UI to learn how to use and master a program. They're programming for themselves, rather than the general public, and the UI suffers for it.

>>60666218
It's mainly because more effort is taken into improving the backend than anything else. The programs you are talking about are pretty much standalone and integrate a lot of necessary dependencies together so it becomes quite a hairy mess, and anyone who's maintained any codebase knows that. Linux has excelled in the scientific world (e.g. GROMACS, Code_Aster, MOOSE, CP2K, etc.) because the development is centered around few core libraries and message passing interfaces. In the world of image, video, etc. editing, there are no standards developed to aid those whom are squarely developers in streamlining a usable program. Because of this they are much more consumed in developing features either from scratch or by pulling in thousands of dependencies, maintainance is pretty atrocious and is always in need of constant overhaul. It's more necessary that these programs rely on more standardized routines and what with openimageio, imagemagick, the situation will rapidly improve.

>>60666294
>i need my software complicated as fuck because it gives me a sense of meaning in life
fuck off

>>60666335
first of if someone's "programming for themselves" that's fine by me, perfectly understandable. but large projects clearly trying to create a useful application for the general public (and presenting themselves in such a way) should try to unfuck their GUIs. it's ridiculous to have years of effort put into these programs yet they end up shit because noone ever makes an effort to think about usability
>a lot of the cluster fuck UIs may be harder to learn, but they're potentially better once they've been mastered
i'd generally disagree with that, it seems like a meme to me. look at the PS interface for example, it's very sober and not ornamental or eye candy-ish at all.

>>60666425
that makes a lot of sense, thanks. sure hope it does improve, really the only thing keeping me stuck on windows. i hate adobe as a company, but it's hard to avoid CS/CC when you need professional graphics software