• TheMonkeyLord@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    I feel like Linux alternatives often falter by trying to offer as extensive of a feature set as the proprietary options. GIMP would be better if it simplified it’s menu’s and focused on offering a strong central feature set, then expand on that core over time to offer a powerful workflow of it’s own.

    I noticed this especially with FreeCAD, which is trying to do like 12 things for some reason? Just offer intuitive parametric cad and focus on it. We don’t need OpenSCAD inside FreeCAD because OpenSCAD is already it’s own thing for example.

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      5 months ago

      This happens when a small project has 12 developers each scratching their own itch in their own time, not a team of 120 developers getting paid to work on the same itch 8 hours a day.

      In the case of FreeCAD they’re actually starting to reign in and focus more now, and there are more contributors.

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        That makes a lot of sense when you put it that way. For some reason I never factored that individuals were extending apps for their own use cases lmao