This has never happened to me with my trustworthy GIMP before but today I installed GIMP 2.8, updating it from 2.6, opened it, tried to figure out anything and promptly uninstalled it and reinstalled 2.6

First of all, the most annoying feature has been implemented. GIMP to me is kind of like the VLC of image editing softwares. It can open any image file and save it with any kind of extension. Suddenly in 2.8 it always saves as .xcf (the GIMP specific file which handles layers) and in order to save an image as .gif, .jpg or whatever you have to Export it. So suddenly instead of doing my automatic saves on whatever I have to working on I have to sit and think about what file I'm saving to and whether I should be exporting or saving. WHY? It makes no sense! And then, after exporting as a .jpg I go to exit the program and it asks me if I want to save before quitting? So now it's going to confuse me! You can't save a .jpg file, no, you can only export it! WTFHSMALDBNDNSD WAT?

Then there's the issue with the Toolbox. It keeps disappearing! And then I have to go and search for it! Then when I finally found it and brought it back, the tool options dialogue box is no longer imbedded within the toolbar! Aaargh! This happened to me once before and I had to get an online tutorial to fix it. But at least last time I accidentally hit the wrong keys and pulled the dialogue box out, so it was my fault.

Not to mention that it is sluggish and slow! Not only in starting up but in doing simple tasks like rotating and resizing. Right after uninstalling I tried rotating the same image with 2.6 and voila! rotated without any issues in 5 seconds.

While having all these issues I opened a commission in GIMP, as I normally use it for cropping the image I create in MangaStudio and adding my watermark. I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADD FREAKING TEXT.

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So 2.6 is back. Thank God I had a copy of it in my Download folder.

Maybe 2.8 is awesome and fixes bugs and all that crap but don't change the basic setup of the software! What is that? Horrible, horrible release.