4 hours ago
Gimp 2.10 worked fine, but then it was auto-upgraded to 3.0+ (I use Linux).
* No more Colorcube Analysis in 3.0+, so I cannot tell how many colors an image has.
* The good process for converting to indexed colors from 2.0+ was replaced with one in 3.0+ that sucks. With the 16-color CGA palette, it makes everything green-tinted. With 3-bit RGB (8 colors), it makes everything darker. And the dithering in Floyd Steinberg has a lot of lines and other distortion that was lacking in 2.0+.
* 3.0.4 does a lot of writing to the drive. About 10 MB just to start up, and hundreds of KB to MB every time I open an image or change a preference. Even 3.0 didn't have that problem.
Meanwhile I "downgraded" to 2.1 and it's definitely an upgrade.
* No more Colorcube Analysis in 3.0+, so I cannot tell how many colors an image has.
* The good process for converting to indexed colors from 2.0+ was replaced with one in 3.0+ that sucks. With the 16-color CGA palette, it makes everything green-tinted. With 3-bit RGB (8 colors), it makes everything darker. And the dithering in Floyd Steinberg has a lot of lines and other distortion that was lacking in 2.0+.
* 3.0.4 does a lot of writing to the drive. About 10 MB just to start up, and hundreds of KB to MB every time I open an image or change a preference. Even 3.0 didn't have that problem.
Meanwhile I "downgraded" to 2.1 and it's definitely an upgrade.