I know many people have strong feelings about GIMP, and I just have to say that I love it. I use it for basic photo editing stuff—I’m not an artist—and it has always done what I needed it to do.

I gave up on comparing it to Photoshop over a decade ago, and by simply accepting it as its own thing (learning how it works and not grumbling about how this/that isn’t how Photoshop does it), it’s really not that difficult to learn. Just like vi (or photoshop) it’s a powerful tool and you need to spend some time to gain competence with it.

This is a decades-old comment, but many would like for its name to be changed.

I didn’t even know that Gimp had a slang definition until this thread.

Do you genuinely think this change would help the project? I don’t see how it does anything other than confuse potential users and cause a lot of discussion about something that doesn’t actually improve the functionality itself.

I’m certain renaming GIMP would make a tremendous difference. The name is perceived as offensive & that makes it impossible for people to take seriously, especially in a corporate setting. Edit: As someone who has tried to get people using it because it’s such great software.

Someone could easily fork it and change nothing but the branding if the name was such a problem.

I'm pretty sure that the biggest threat to the adoption of GIMP isn't the name GIMP, it's Adobe doing regular Adobe things.