"You're running gimp from a USB stick? Why is that? Or are you running it on some horrible shared Windows terminal thing?"
Sure. When I am using Windows, I need sometimes to use Linux without touching anything. So I run Debian from the USB stick. It must remain very light and fast. Compared to a Live cdrom, I appreciate that it remains, always, pretty lightweight. Since I installed it myself, I control its content. I have a distro of about 800 Mbytes with X and useful framebuffer programs, such as a light pdfviewer. I haven't python for instance ;) What for? it is slow. Nothing faster than C coded apps. 2013/12/2 Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk>: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:54:11PM +0100, patrick295767 patrick295767 wrote: >> Gimp on Linux is rather ok, but on Linux, the portable version and the >> 2.8.10 are very slow, which limits drastically the use. >> >> On an usb installation, gimp might be quite slow, unfortunately. > > You're running gimp from a USB stick? Why is that? Or are you > running it on some horrible shared Windows terminal thing? > > I actually like gimp quite a bit. It works really well, and given > the flexibility it has it doesn't have too excessive dependencies > (most of those listed from your screenshot are just dependencies of > gtk). Obviously it's far from perfect, and could suck less, but I > really doubt it would be easy to code up something like that, that > still worked well. > > There are other simpler free image editors out there, depending on > what you need, mtPaint being the one I can remember off my head. > > As others have mentioned, imagemagick can do amazing things, but for > a lot of usecases it's a pretty slow and difficult way of working. >
