• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    42·
    7 hours ago

    I’ve come to think of it as a (really) good thing - no financially motivated tech megacorp is gonna sell a monthly “sub to Gimp”.

    (Tho a clothes rental company might.)

    • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 hours ago

      I knew they were British, so I always assumed it had something to do with the whole Virgin Queen thing(it was and is a nickname for Elizabeth the first) or something like that, but it was apparently because they considered themselves virgins in business when they started their first record store.

  • Ilixtze@lemm.eeEnglish
    50·
    12 hours ago

    I always thought it was a clever sex pervert acronym for

    Graphic

    Image

    Manipulation

    Program

  • Abnorc@lemm.ee
    131·
    9 hours ago

    I remember someone pointed out that GIMP probably would never get adopted in a company or professional environment just because of the name. Imagine suggesting that someone should use “GIMP” in a work meeting, lol. It’s not necessarily a problem, but it’s a funny limitation that they put on the software.

    • Charlxmagne@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Aint good at graphic design but Krita’s better anyways, we used it in school, along with PS, didn’t really see a difference in either program, tho I was equally shit at using both.

    • renzev@lemmy.world
      421·
      9 hours ago

      See, most people have no clue that “gimp” is a sex thing. They just see it as a funny-sounding acronym. In an actual work meeting, the people who do know wouldn’t say anything about it to avoid being seen as the weird ones.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
      16·
      8 hours ago

      I use GIMP at work. It’s officially approved in a very tightly restrained environment, literally in a repository of software people can install from. At an enterprise with thousands of employees.

      I’m pretty sure only people who know what it is install it, never heard anyone so much as mention it.

      • Gork@lemm.ee
        2·
        4 hours ago

        You’re lucky to have IT even know what GIMP is, much less have it officially approved.

        Every place I’ve been at was like “what’s that?”