So my Dell XPS 13 DE laptop computer working Ubuntu died on me at this time. Let’s simply say I in all probability shouldn’t have tried to be environment friendly and take a shower and work on the similar time!
Sadly, as life all the time appears to be, you all the time want one thing at a time that you just don’t have it and that’s the case at this time. I’ve some photos that I must edit for a web site, and I solely know and use GIMP. I took a have a look at my PC stock at residence, and I had two choices:
- Macbook Air: My roommate’s laptop
- HP Chromebook 11: A section of my life the place I tried to streamline my life and simplify which lasted two weeks
My roommate was utilizing his laptop, so it actually solely left me with one choice, the chromebook. I additionally didn’t have a want to be taught one other OS at this time as I’ve executed sufficient distro hopping in the previous few months. I charged and booted up the chromebook and began to determine how I may get GIMP onto it. Curiously sufficient, there are usually not many clear reduce choices to working GIMP on an Android gadget. There was an choice to run a Linux developer surroundings on the chromebook, however it required 10GB of house which I didn’t have. Due to this fact, choice two was to search out an app on the Google Play Retailer.
Typing GIMP introduced me to an app known as XGimp Picture Editor from DMobileAndroid, and I put in and loaded it with a picture to solely discover this:
This undoubtedly is nothing like GIMP and gave the impression to be very restricted in performance anyway. I may see why it had garnered a 1.4 star score because it undoubtedly is just not what somebody would anticipate when they’re in search of one thing just like GIMP.
So I took a have a look at the opposite choices, and there was one other app known as GIMP from Userland Applied sciences. It does value $1.99, however it was a one-time cost and gave the impression to be the one different choice on the Play Retailer. Reviewing the screenshots and the outline of the applying appeared to recommend that this is able to be the precise GIMP app that I used to be utilizing on my desktop so I went forward and downloaded it. Set up was comparatively fast, and I began working it and to my shock, here’s what I noticed:
It seems that the applying principally is a Linux desktop construct that routinely launches the desktop model of GIMP. Due to this fact, it truly is GIMP. I loaded up a picture which was additionally comparatively simple to do because it seamlessly linked to my folders on my chromebook.
As you may see from the screenshot, that is GIMP in all its glory. I discovered the expertise to be very satisfying with the ability to use my low-cost and moveable chromebook for my work. The GIMP app has all the performance and expertise of the desktop model, so I used to be in a position to do every thing that I wanted to do to get my job accomplished with out having to be taught a brand new app or OS. I additionally loaded it up on my Samsung Galaxy cellphone and located it to be an alternative choice on the go. It bought me considering additionally if I wanted to return to trying that simplistic section of my life, however I’ll go away that call for one more day.
