Then that is your opinion and you are entitled to it.

I do not like them because the animations are arbitrary, with no proper theme and consistency to how they work and what they actually represent.

nope!

if you have to ask me for “permission” for having your own opinions, well, i won’t stop you.

a lot of these are terrible, made by an animator who doesn’t understand design and just wants to make lines move for the heck of it.

“linux is hard” is a subjective opinion and he is entitled to it. it does not make it misinformation. he is free to express his frustrations at the learning curve, just like any learning curve in any other software.

to be fair, though, 1 and 0 are just binary representations of values, same as decimal and hexadecimal. within your example, we’d absolutely find the entire works of shakespeare encoded in ascii, unicode, and lcd pixel format with each letter arranged in 3x5 grids.

I don’t care.

In your opinion, sure.

If it works for them, then it’s not the wrong tool for the job.

I’m just looking through this entire thread, and call me crazy, OP, but you seem angry not more people are using GIMP. You’re quite aggressive about it, attempting to shut down legitimate UI and UX concerns at every corner, and it is genuinely fatiguing to see.

man’s actually taking the piss at OP’s use of “empirical” instead of “imperial”

also, i doubt that measurements of data can be imperial or metric; even Bytes themselves are just measurements of 8 bits.

I’m part of the 70%.

I use it exclusively for gay furry porn.