Gimp isn't perfect. But neither is Photoshop. In fact Lightroom users grizzle that Photoshop is so much harder to use than Lightroom. It's a different animal.

I use Pinta or Paint.Net when I want a quick edit. But Gimp has the tools for serious editing. More tools, more hard to use.

Some Gimp things, yes! should be improved. And other things are being improved as we speak. And some things can be done on a photo much easier in Inkscape.

I hope the whiners donated to Gimp development? No? Then just please step back, and think for a bit. If thinking is too hard, then just take a deep breath.

Terrible usability will be the right term, if someone suggests applying one type of UI to an inappropriate situation/user/task. Such suggestions sadly seem to happen a lot in the Linux space. And saying CLI is easier is a sweeping proclamation. Whereas I've avoided making sweeping proclamations, repeatedly describing the many cases where CLI is poor. Usability analysis needs to know about the user and the situation. It's not one size fits all.

I've used various command line systems a lot in the past.

I'm saying it's more productive for many to invest in extending learning their home environment than learning a completely unfamiliar and inappropriate environment.

It's better to learn how to do it in your own environment, than having to learn a whole new strange environment. Especially one that is not user friendly, with poor visual feedback, intolerant of any mistype, and requiring memorising.

GUIs, even the Registry Editor, are familiar territory for a lot of users. Give them a blank screen cli, and there is no hint of what to do next. There are good reasons why the vast majority clearly prefer GUIs.

Go down that path and it's all binary. But users deal with metaphors. And containers are very useful.

"It is not strange"

The terminal is nothing like familiar GUIs people use daily. To most, the terminal is strange and full of opportunities to mess up.

"so much faster by copy/paste"

It's not faster when the user needs to go to a separate application first to find the instructions, then find the text to copy. And also search for how to use the terminal, and that it might be called Konsole confusingly. And also to understand if the command did anything. Does it print anything that you need to read? Should you close the terminal afterwards? Should you trust copy pasting from Internet strangers? All this is missing from online help, where they assume people have used the command line before.

Such a GUI app could be launched from Dolphin by right-clicking the share, and selecting a new option "Mount" that would help discoverability. A standalone app would need:

• A clear title. Like "Mount Share"
• A 'Share selecter' Browser.
• The 'mount point' definition should have both:
  • 'Folder Browser' for manual selection.
  • 'Default path' option. Most don't know where it should be mounted.
• 'Credential definition' needs a 'Guest/Anonymous' option for when there is no account defined.
• Feedback message on success or failure
• Easy to install.

You really have to put yourself in the position of a non IT user. They see a blank window with a blinking cursor. No hint at what to do. You know they have already chosen GUI systems. And for good reason. It's over. The numbers are clear. Talk to usability insiders. As you have clearly shown you are not one. Many Linux devs have worked hard to carefully create desktop environments and Apps like Digikam, all GUI based. To give non IT users a chance to use Linux. And make it an inclusive and learnable OS. They hate it when usability outsiders scare people off by telling them to leave their familiar world into a strange and difficult place.

It is hard if you don't know you need to mount the share. How long should people be searching the web for, looking to access the share directly like some apps can do, when they have never even heard of the concept of mounting a share. Telling non IT people to use some command line or other nerdy hack, with magic words that fail if one single letter is wrong, to do what shouldn't even be necessary in the first place, is typical gatekeepery that stops so many from using Linux. You might not realise what a huge barrier, such broken usability is, for non IT people. Avoid being part of that barrier.

Can the user choose? Not if there is only an appimage. Some devs don't realise the problems they are causing doing that. So it is very important to enlighten them.

Yes, the FreeCAD UI does need an upgrade. With more on-canvas working, and streamlining of tasks. I'm sure it will happen, but due to limited capacity, that will take time. It's hard to find people with experience in CAD and programming and UX.

To help with FreeCAD, the link, posted by someone here, seems the right way to go. https://wiki.freecad.org/Help_FreeCAD

And no, struggling to learn something that is sub par will not make it better for others. Be a part of the community here https://forum.freecad.org

Duplicati Thanks. I just tried it. It doesn't list Samba under storage type. I tried it anyway and never managed to get it to work. It's really designed for cloud services. It might be possible to make it work if I knew networking trickery. But I can't do it.

Thanks. I already tried Smb4K. It finds the LAN shares and mounts them. But they are only mounted when Smb4K is running. I need them permanently mounted.