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  • It would also instantly make it impossible to find for everyone who knows it as GIMP, and mean that users of the new version wouldn’t see any of the huge amount of existing tutorials for it.

    The word only really has two meanings in one country anyway (the US).





  • Boom, looks like it’s sorted, thanks! I didn’t have a ~/.local/state/pipewire/media-session.d/ directory, but I deleted ~/.local/state/wireplumber/ and then rebooted and all was well again 🤸

    Any idea what might have caused the problem in the first place?

    MPV is no longer responding to my keyboard shortcuts for media controls (play/pause etc). Not a biggie but understanding the issue might help me solve that too.


  • No luck so far. When I use ‘groups username’ in the terminal to compare the groups of both users they are exactly the same. Interestingly neither show ‘audio’ or ‘video’ as a group that they’re in - both users are only in ‘username’ and ‘users’. Yet both are able to play video, and only one gets audio along with it… The behaviour is the same from a cold boot with only one user logged in as it is when there are two users logged in.














  • I’ve used Photoshop professionally for 20 years and GIMP for about 3 and, to be fair, both of their default interfaces have have their pros and cons. After spending the 2/3 hours it takes to become proficient in one after being used to the other, the comparison mostly comes down to other things e.g availability of tools, raw performance, enshittification etc.

    Don’t get me wrong, there are some things that annoy me about GIMP (like any software), but I’ll be recommending versions 3.0 onwards over Photoshop every time. Adjusting to the interface is easily worth it.