[girzel]

Like a good FOSS nerd (and cheapo), I tried to steer my daughter towards Gimp rather than shelling out for Photoshop. She dug in her heels, and eventually I was able to divine that the reason was, the internet is chock-full of tutorials on using Photoshop to do all the kinds of art she wanted to do. The number of equivalently-useful Gimp tutorials was effectively zero. That's when I gave in.

I guess a variant of the network effect?

[phendrenad2]

And yet, GIMP could have an interface much more like Photoshop. There are commercial Photoshop clones on the market (Paint Shop Pro). Why do open-source devs always have to make something out in left field?

[zem]

heck, even as a seasoned developer currently learning my way around webdev, i tinkered a bit with roda and hanami (both of which are wonderfully designed frameworks), and ended up ditching them both for rails because that's where all the tutorials, articles and example code are.