Checked the GitHub, didnae find an ethos or design goals in the ReadMe or user accounts. Why are you building this? What do you hope to achieve?

When I was going for a selfhosted mesh tunnel solution this year, I originally steered toward Netbird given that Tailscale (the client) is rather obtuse to connect with alternate control servers.

I don't actively use Netbird, but rather did go with Headscale in the end. If you're satisfied with and your requirements for Netbird don't include anything that deviates from their setup scripts, I'd imagine your deployment would go fine. My requirements and my strong desire to have everything relevant in my selhost deployments be fully to mostly declarative, and be trackable via git had me finding out how incompatible Netbird is for me. I don't think I have seen an app more averse to being deployed declaratively, which as it turns out is likely the reason their deployment scripts exist in the first place.

The there's the (at the time at least) really confusing and contradictory documentation that describe two different generations of potential deployment of the software. Good documentation is half of what makes software deployments maintainable, and Netbird had (and might still have) outright misleading documentation that will have you looping in circles attempting to figure out reasonably standard functionality like using external oidc for accounts.

You just wanted to shit on something.

Thanks, I just got signed up and I'll get some ideas over to you folks :)

My profile: https://gitlab.gnome.org/mattwebb.dev

I meant that OP was quoting themself. I'd be rather surprised if they have anything to do with the GIMP project

I dont care about it to test it. I just use Krita.

I am a graphic designer. Used to build ads for Autotrader magazines. Its a very difficult program.

@pnwpixel @psycotica0 We welcome feedback! We even have a dedicated UX design now to collect and discuss it: gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/GIMP/De

I regularly use both. Inkscape and Gimp could benefit from ux improvements that ease newbies in, with intuitiveness being front and center.

It's not about being childish, prissy, or clutching pearls. It's about how in a professional setting, image and reputation matters. And if the name of the software you use might damage either of those in the eyes of others, it can be risky to say you use it.

I've heard stories from people who say they've been to conferences or networking events where someone seemed interested in their work, and asked what they used. When they tell them Gimp, the person walks away and never contacts them.

If you're a freelancer especially, losing potential clients and contracts over the name of your software is a serious issue that many people can't afford to ignore.

Use the ellipse selection tool, hold shift as you make your section to keep it 1:1, selection to path, fill/stroke as needed?

Yeah, I should've revised my comment after I read the release notes.

Friend, even GIMP dev themselves is currently adding shape tool.

GIMP official site listed 'Graphic Design Elements' as supported workflow, means shape tools is absolutely necessary.

I think they are quoting themselves

Linux releases are done via Flatpak, both mainline and development. I don't think Gimp itself would be linking to a snap package.

Check out Pixelitor. I'm almost sad I only just discovered it. It has all the basic functionality I ever need, conveniently so.

But why not have the basic stuff like every other tool does?

Hello, this is Tim Adobe. Don't worry, we are working hard to make sure we remain the best. There's currently a team trying to figure out wtf a "gnu" is while another team figures out the maximum price increase our customer base will accept to give us a good budget to work with (previous profits were used on boats for executive team and some pizzas from the cheapest place my executive assistant could find with free delivery). Is Mr GIMP interested in selling?

I've used nebula for a while now, and I'm working on building a little network management UI for myself because I'm so tired of manually creating new host configurations lol

Personally I'm a fan of Nebula

Obligatory super nice guide by apalrd

I've been using netbird for couple of months now.

The good:

• I was able to do everything using the free version (exit node, DNS)
• in theory you can self-host it (haven't tried)
• it has an Android client app in f-droid
• stable, everything works really nice

The bad:

• it eats up a lot of battery on Android. There's a bug open for it for months now. After playing around with some settings I got it to the point where the battery usage goes up on mobile data only. Once I'm back to WiFi it's ok. I have deployed netmaker locally and testing it is on my to do list but as things are now I can go through the day without issues with netbird and I'm kind of hoping they will fix it before I'll have the time to test netmaker

Netmaker was easy to setup locally but I don't know if it can fully replace netbird.

I tried headscale and it wasn't easy to set up. From what I read tailscale apps treat self-hosted solutions as an afterthought so it's not as easy to set up. I would be worried they will drop it and force you to use their servers at some point. Netbird at least is marketed as a self-hosted solution.

I’ve used GIMP in the past. I don’t understand it, but it’s free and can do stuff so I’m not going to complain.

But I’d also say that using/being good at GIMP is solidly not “normal” lol. And being on Lemmy is even less normal, so here we are.

https://krita.org/

It's nice to have alternatives but I don't understand why we can't have a fully FOSS implementation of overlay networking without needing a company trying to up-sell us to premium features. I don't like to rely on companies to maintain a product that's a critical part of my infrastructure.

Circles ≠ Vectors. Sometimes I want to edit images by drawing circles around things. I'm actually serious, e.g., indicating locations where there is a leak and such. Freehand circles look ridiculous and unprofessional without a drawing tablet.