Understood. I am hoping to be able to get some custom development done in time, and that is certainly something that doesn't behave in a way most people would think it would, so it's being added as a feature request.

Thanks. The way it is, the notification will stay even after having responded to it, which I don't see the benefit of.

Do I have to manually clear notifications?

Yeah. Which is handy for people like me who reads a message and then responds hours later. But obviously it should be an end user option to clear upon read or clear manually.

I'll add it to the to do list.

ImageMagick is mostly a CLI tool, but it does have GUI functionality. You don't use it by opening a GUI application that is called ImageMagick, though. It's an assortment of tools.

That's what I'm talking about. I'm not exclusively using shortcuts so that approach didn't solve the problem.

I can import and export jpg files just fine on gimp 2.10.
If you're talking about not being able to "Save" or "Save As" a jpg, all you have to do is select "Export" or "Export As" (Ctrl+E and Ctrl+Shift+E) from the same menu or just replace the Ctrl+S for the same.

Never been a big fan of gimp, even though I used it almost exclusively for image editing. I'll have to look into ImageMagick.

Also... why doesn't the notification thingie in the top disappear after answering the thing that I was notified about? Do I have to manually clear notifications?

Since Gimp 2.8 the software refuses to let you open a jpg and save it as jpg. You have to use export instead and jump through some hoops. If you try to save, Gimp tells you no can do. In a really condescending way, too. Pissed me off so much the first time, I immediately rolled it back. Since then I've tried a few more times, but this weird workflow of opening jpgs and having to export them doesn't work for me.

It's an image editor as far as I'm concerned. It's supposed to edit images. Not create elaborate projects worth saving. I open, I edit, I save (to jpg) and I'm done. The stupid export thing will also sometimes keep a useless xfc file. Really aggravating. Like you're not supposed to use the thing as an image editor. Devs have also been extremely conceited when it was pointed out to them how stupid this change was and basically told everyone raising concerns they should use something else. Therefore, this project is pretty much dead to me.

Wait, what? There was a version without jpg support? I've been using it for years and have never noticed that.

Currently rocking GIMP 2.10.8 for reference.

Heh,.. I never forgave them for the "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you save as *jpg" bullshit, so I stuck with 2.6 and will continue to do so. Possibly I'm completely moving over to ImageMagick, though. Already use it for most of my image editing.

It has improved but there are still few small bugs here and there but I put that down to the fact I upgraded on top of cinnamon install instead of going fresh. Still worth the look.

If I make the time, my new year's resolution is to get a LinuxFromScratch box up and running. From a skim of the book, it seems a bit tedious tho.

Ubuntu base, vanilla GNOME Shell. I like it simple.

I haven't tried KDE in probably ten years... I may have to try it again. Back then it was ahead of the curve in terms of looks, I think, but I found it really buggy.

I'm sure it's probably a better experience now though.

KDE Plasma just makes everything look so nice. Before I was using Cinnamon, since installing KDE. I haven't looked back. Really enjoying the "Nordian-Gobal" with a few personal tweaks.

Since I've started using tiling window managers like i3wm and dwm, I'll never be able to go back to something else.

I never was a big fan of Gnome to begin with. Something about the classic taskbar and menu will always hold a place in my heart. It's why all my Linux devices use either XFCE or MATE desktop environments.

I used to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows years ago. Nowadays though most of my computer use is on my work computer from home which has windows. So what I do is run a linux live boot of xubuntu on my work computer for personal use and use hard drives connected via usb. I've written bash scripts which auto configure it the way I want it during each live session. This way I don't have to worry about f'ing-up anything in windows and I don't get a call from the IT department the next day. The one down side of running xubuntu live though is that it doesn't come with nvidia drivers pre-loaded. The only linux distro I could find that has nvidia drivers pre-loaded to run on a live usb is PCLinux. PCLinux has a sweet looking KDE setup, but it uses RPM packages and is not really heavily supported so that's its downside. If I could just get a debian based distro with nvidia drivers pre-loaded it would be the perfect setup for me, but haven't had any luck finding one... arggghh!

Crunchbang was my favorite 10 years ago. I tried the new version about a year ago, not sure why I gave it up. For servers its Debian.
For desktop I tried Qubes also recently, but it looked like a bit much for everyday use.
I've settled on Mint Cinnamon. Good so far, except fingerprint login is buggy.

I feel like that is most PC's in general but then again I'm always installing/uninstalling one thing or another for whatever project I'm working on and some times just nuking my hard drive from orbit fixes my problems.

I run Mint on one of my machines and have for years. But somehow, over the course of time, my Linux machines start having weird dependency conflicts and issues and after 3-5 years it's time to backup the important stuff and start fresh. Sometimes that's easier than going down the rabbit hole of figuring out why "something that should work" doesn't work, haha.

I've gotten to that point on my Linux Mint machine and not sure what I'll replace it with. May just go raw Debian like I'm using now.

Honestly I just like the layout of mint. It just hits something for me that I can't put my finger on.

Sitting comfortably on Manjaro KDE Plasma at the moment.

Having replaced Kwin, default KDE window manager, whit i3wm, I got great experience both on laptop and on bigger screens.

Plus, not the pain of installing Arch but all the wisdom from ArchWiki and packages from the AUR.

Ah man, wasn't it Microsoft...