I think that there are probably a number of factors.
One is that people don’t like their workflow being disrupted, especially if they’ve spent a lot of time building that workflow.
I use GIMP to do image editing. I don’t professionally do graphic design. I haven’t used Photoshop since, oh, the 1990s, probably.
The last time I sat down with a co-worker who did do graphic design professionally, he really didn’t like GIMP. IIRC, at the time, oh…I think that one issue was that the default behavior for Control-V was to paste an image into a layer, rather than as a new layer. I said “that’s…how Photoshop did things too, or at least used to”. And you can rebind keystrokes in GIMP, make Control-V paste into a new layer. But for him, that was disruptive to a finely-honed-over-years workflow.
I think that for a new user, that might be irrelevant. But for someone who spent years building up a skillset around that behavior, it’s a problem. They have a task, have a deadline, and at some point down the road, suddenly right before they’re about to get a task done, an operation that they thought they knew how to do doesn’t work. For them, that matters a lot, since getting their work done by a deadline is what they get evaluated on.
GIMP or LibreOffice are free. But the cost isn’t a huge deal for a business, and for users where their employer is footing the bill, the cost is probably uninteresting.
Anybody ever tried to get complete morons off of microsoft?
They’re pathetic.
I think that there are probably a number of factors.
One is that people don’t like their workflow being disrupted, especially if they’ve spent a lot of time building that workflow.
I use GIMP to do image editing. I don’t professionally do graphic design. I haven’t used Photoshop since, oh, the 1990s, probably.
The last time I sat down with a co-worker who did do graphic design professionally, he really didn’t like GIMP. IIRC, at the time, oh…I think that one issue was that the default behavior for Control-V was to paste an image into a layer, rather than as a new layer. I said “that’s…how Photoshop did things too, or at least used to”. And you can rebind keystrokes in GIMP, make Control-V paste into a new layer. But for him, that was disruptive to a finely-honed-over-years workflow.
I think that for a new user, that might be irrelevant. But for someone who spent years building up a skillset around that behavior, it’s a problem. They have a task, have a deadline, and at some point down the road, suddenly right before they’re about to get a task done, an operation that they thought they knew how to do doesn’t work. For them, that matters a lot, since getting their work done by a deadline is what they get evaluated on.
GIMP or LibreOffice are free. But the cost isn’t a huge deal for a business, and for users where their employer is footing the bill, the cost is probably uninteresting.