Yeah, the last time I tried out Gimp, the menus had so many options, they didn't even fit on my screen and I had to scroll up and down just to see them all.
I've heard of a Gimp mod called Photogimp that makes the UI more like Photoshop. I wonder if it would be possible for someone to make a "Basicgimp" mod, where, by default, the UI only contains the basics needed for meming, and the rest could be turned on/off ticking a box for "Full UI".
re side question: I'm new to meming, image editing generally, and FOSS image editors.
Over the last month or so, I've tried a bunch except for Gimp (which the last time I checked had about 3.4 trillion things I don't need) for meming:
A Photo Tool Libre
Dibuja
Krita
Ksnip
Pinta
Photoflare
probably some more I've forgotten
... and I keep coming back to Photopea (actually, Photocrea, a locally-installed version of Photopea). And it's not because I'm some Photoshop expert who finds it familiar. I'm an ingenue, who somehow can work out and (often) achieve what I want in Photopea, unlike the FOSS options.
All the others have issues for me, ranging from annoying niggles to absolute showstoppers. Just yesterday, I finally lost it with Krita and rage-uninstalled it.
The only FOSS ones I sometimes use are Ksnip (a screenshot tool with some editing features) and Pinta (for barely more than scaling and cropping), and I shudder at the thought of dealing with its UI. (Libadwaita, i.e. "fuck you, your OS, your theme and everything you ever thought you knew about UIs!")
I also managed to install a CLI tool for some basic meming:
Call the cops and say there's a suspicious man with a funny accent displaying signs of excited delirium, and they'll make sure the paramedics shoot him up with enough to get the job done.
"It wasn't no Q. It was them cable-faced bastards at Wolf 359. A Borgo torpedo hit my vessel and then the robobastards boarded us. I killed fitty of them but they kept coming! First, they got Fatty, then they got Stinky, and finally they popped Brooklyn.
I made it in an escape pod to a moon, but it was full of the Borgotrons! They were spitting on the Federation flag! So I rushed 'em, but it was a trap. They opened fire and blew my shins off. Last thing I remember, I beat 'em all to death with a big piece of Fatty. I woke up in a field hospital, and they were sewing my feet to my knees. I ain't been able to climb over a chair since."
Kept with SoA until I tired of the "3 concurrent life-or-death crises" formula, with a new life-or-death crisis introduced each time an older one reached its end.
All principal characters even went to prison for a year, with no such crises for the rest of the MC, and then as soon as they got out, straight back to "3 concurrent life-or-death crises" as usual.
The rest of the MC should have realized "Hey, things were so chill when those guys were away, let's get 'em sent back".
Wait... this is a forum for catfishers???
And what kind of victim can you suck in with Gowron eyes? (Asking for a friend)