Wow, thank you for another very informative and educational post, @jrswab! I've been learning so much from your posts and from chatting with you over at MSP, and I really appreciate the time and effort that you put into sharing your knowledge with others on here.

I've been using VLC myself for years, and I tried gimp for a while but it didn't really click for me so I went back to using Photoshop. Perhaps I'll give it another shot. Also, I will say this, just like I didn't truly understand what decentralized meant until that radio show when you explained it, I never actually truly understood what open source fully meant until I read this post.

So glad I'm following you and learning so much! Thank you again!