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(4 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote:(5 hours ago)CtrlAltDel Wrote:(5 hours ago)rich2005 Wrote: Just as a note, I have gone to a Mint 22.3 (with KDE ) and regular Gimp 3.2 from a PPA , that gives the packages to compile for 'ubuntu based distros.Thanks, Rich. In my entire, long screed, I forgot to mention that I'm using the Cinnamon DE. Luckily, I think you remembered that.
Also a Gimp 2.10 appimage for all those sorely missed scripts and plugins that do not work with Gimp 3.x
I certainly may give KDE a try and thanks for the suggestion.
I would stick with what you are familiar with. The KDE desktop for Mint is not wonderful that is why I will probably go to kubuntu 26.04 when it comes out.
I made the switch to basically the reverse of what I used previously, a regular install of Gimp 2.10 (need that for my scanner amongst other things) and a Gimp 3.x appimage - now the other way round. Early days, still setting things up but both gmic and resynth work with Gimp 3.2
You are probably correct.
I have only ever used Mint while using Linux, started on Mint 5 Elyssa Gnome in 2008, and then only ever used the Cinnamon DE since it was created in late 2011 to compliment Mint. I've tried KDE on some older version Mint live USB's when KDE was still packaged by Mint and never really cared too much for it.
I suppose I could give Kubuntu a try like you but, for me, it's probably just too much to just get a properly working Gimp. I'm not even really that talented or skilled in Gimp like you are. I can probably get by with the official release of the Gimp AppImages from Gimp.org until maybe, one day, my version of Mint and the Cinnamon DE and their version of Gimp match up and play well together.