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[–] [email protected] 120 points 11 months ago (3 children)

wait, what? I've had a GIMP 2.x for at least 15 years now. they can't just... increase the number?? it's part of the program's name now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

It's been so long that the two versions might as well be completely separate different programs at this point.

I'll probably run both when the new version is available because I've become so normalized to GIMP 2.10

It will take me another decade to get used to GIMP 3.0

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I think it's gonna be Linux 2-7 for Gimp 2-3.