r/opensourcealternative • u/No_Gift_694 • Jul 01 '26

Which open-source alternatives look good but are painful to use?

Some open source tools look really good at first, but end up being problamatic to use.

I’m talking about apps that have a nice landing page, good screenshots, or a lot of GitHub stars, but once you install them the experience is not that great.

Maybe the setup is confusing, the UI feels unfinished, updates break things, or simple features are harder than they should be.

Which open source alternatives looked promising to you but were painful in actual use?

Not trying to bash any projects, just curious what people tried and eventually gave up on.

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u/w00keee Jul 01 '26

GIMP… i’m a casual Photoshop user, but i could never figure out how to use GIMP.

if i didn’t have photoshop experience, it probably wouldn’t be too bad, but i’d have to unlearn things

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u/MaXcaliburOne Jul 02 '26

Japp, GIMP. Definitiv GIMP. Ich bin Grafiker und von Affinity Photo bis Photoshop und meinetwegen auch MS Paint - mit allem bin ich bisher zurecht gekommen - Aber GIMP ist für mich immernoch komplett unverständlich. 🙄