Somewhat tangential to this post but I'm happy that OBS is open source and it's established. It's up there with blender as quality open source tools that are rapidly reaching mainstream acceptance.
Agreed. In terms of streaming on Twitch, YouTube, or elsewhere, and even for things like budget live production and screen recording, it has become more or less the standard by which other tools are measured.
As the project lead for another "significant" open source media app, Ardour, I want to note how incredibly impressed I am by OBS. The program itself and the extent of it being "the standard" for what it does are unmatched, even by Blender. Every time I use it (not daily but weekly-ish) it reminds me how impressive it really is. I'm not deep into the OBS community, but from the outside, it's also impressive how the application is not obviously surrounded by endless wasted rants about its appearance, which is very out of step with contemporary GUI design, yet remains highly functional.
- Photoshop CS2 is abandonware, can't activate it anymore, Adobe doesn't care and runs perfectly with Wine. Heck I tried it with Bottles [0] and it's so simple. And much better than GIMP/Glimpse
As far as I can tell, the only reason for the Glimpse fork to exist is to make the name less 'inoffensive'. All they did was search and replace 'gimp' across the codebase. It certainly is not the continuation of the GIMP project.
The Glimpse project started out as a less offensive fork but was planned to evolve into a rewrite project bringing GIMP level photo-editing to GTK3 but the devs got hit hard by the pandemic and it got put on hold indefinitely.
Hm, the glimpse website bills it mostly as a UI upgrade, though as far as I can tell the UI hasn't actually been updated. Didn't realize they did it due to being up in arms about the GIMP name which seems silly.
