GIMP and photoshop have always been photo editing tools first and foremost

I mean, GIMP literally means “General Image Manipulation Program”.

Excusing the lack of proper shape drawing tools as “it’s a task for vector software” while at the same time having things like the ability to define vector masks is complete nonsense.

Or, this might blow off the minds of some people, not using transparency.

Even Microshit tried and gave up because it was so hard

Not exactly. Yes a browser engine is one of the most, if not the most, complex pieces of software.

But if it was almost impossible to create a web engine then this, or KDE’s KHTML, or Servo, or NetSurf, or Kraken, or you-name-it wouldn’t exist.

Then how come (one of) the most powerful tech company in the world couldn’t make it, you ask? They already had a “functional” web engine. But what they had from the beginning was absolute shit that did not respect any web standard. And oh boy we people who fought against that shit trying to support it do know. Its baggage was immensely huge and shitty that after a while and the speed Chrome was taking over they found it was easier to yeet it altogether, and I do hope that piece of shit is burning in hell because it made our lifes so miserable.

Note that Opera did the same thing with their web engine - they gave up with it mostly because they found easier to jump in the Blink bandwagon, without realizing they were making Opera just another Chromium skin without much value, contrary to what Presto was.

Kinda what could happen if one day Microsoft decided to try make Windows to be as functional, fast and permissive as Linux.

I love Gentoo precisely because of Portage, but I think the most badass package install/uninstall syntax has to be that of (the defunct?) Sorcerer Linux:

Sorcerer’s tool terminology is based upon magic words. For example:

• a tool to download, compile, and install software is called a “spell”
• to install a package is “cast”
• to remove a package is “dispel”
• a set of available spells is called a “grimoire”