GIMP is crap, the reason they make up all those excuses is because they have nothing better than it. The majority of them talking online seem to think GIMP is a superior image manipulation tool than Photoshop on a technical level despite the fact gimp cannot even simply or reliably draw a circle.

Your comment's really negative and disrespectful, please don't do that. If your test for drawing programs is "makes it simple to draw a circle" than Microsoft Paint would be better than both of them.

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I'll disagree on that. GIMP has no dedicated tool to draw basic geometric shapes because it's an image editor, not a painting tool. For its devs to add such a tool will not be hard because GIMP can already do it in a more advanced way by stroking selection. If anyone wants to try: make a new image > rectangle/ellipse selection (shortcuts R/E) > press / (in keyboard) > write some of and enter on "Stroke selection..." > enter. If there's a problem with GIMP, it's being pretty complicated (then again it's an advanced program), perhaps more than its competitors.

I don't get this post. You listed several rational reasons why it has no tool to do that:

>GIMP is free software, its lack of funding, that (allegedly) those tools are irrelevant

If you have a specific feature request, you might consider checking the bug tracker for an existing issue. If there is one, then it's not helpful to mention it any further. The developers already know what the request is. From that point on the only helpful thing you can do is to contribute code, designs, etc towards getting the feature done.

To illustrate, have you ever had somebody sitting behind you while you work who keeps repeatedly saying things like "are you working on that thing for me yet? are you done yet? when will you be done?" until you finish? It's kind of like that. Doing that doesn't help the person go any faster.