Davor Dukaric
Croatia
3.3.27280 Alpha (May 27, 2012)
I love this program. You know why? Because I'm still using v1.8.5. That's the last 1.8 version. There are no noticeable bugs, it works perfectly. When I saw v2 I just said "OK, thank you, but no thank you". I think uTorrent is still the best, leanest, smoothest torrent client out there, but do yourself a favour and use this old version and forget about "upgrading". People often think about upgrading as something good, well... I've been into IT for almost 2 decades and all I can tell you is that yeah - it used to make sense in the old days, but not these days. Programs start with a nice idea, then get to a point [peak] where they work perfectly, and then they get overbloated because developers have nothing more to do with it but add useless features, or/and make it payware. It's the same with OSes, gadgets, pretty much everything, and it all comes down to money, and users who expect to see "upgrades" every month or even more frequently. When a program is without serious bugs, that's the one you should use. No upgrades. Everything is just getting slower and bloated after that point. Use it and forget about upgrades. It feels very comfortable after some time when you get over the upgradeoholicism. ;) cheers! The 5 stars go to v1.8.5 that's been reliably working with no hickups all these years on my trusty XP.
2.8.0 (May 27, 2012)
I can swear that version 2.6 and even 2.7 was faster. That's my only problem with this 2.8 version. On the other hand, single window interface is a great addition that now, after using GIMP for a few years, I cannot get my head around it. I so wanted it, and now that it's here, I have doubts about it. Weird. Anyway, I always liked GIMP and I have never considered buying something like Adobe as I'm far from a professional, and Photoshop is very expensive for a piece of software for an amateur, absolutely not worth it. GIMP is all, and far more than an amateur photo editor needs. If it just weren't so slow... I was actually hoping it would get faster than the old version. :( Really sad. How many cores do I need to get it run normally? 16? However, because of all the wonderful features, my love for Open Source software and GIMP, out of gratitude for such versatile software we get for free, I have to give it five stars, again. [p.s. but guys what are you doing? why is it getting even slower instead of faster?]
4.14 (Feb 11, 2012)
Great for price. Blows away ProTools.
While waiting for PT to boot, you can do half of the song in Reaper. Just one of the many examples... I simply gave up on PT as it's not worth the trouble. DigiDesign is also a very crappy corporation, it's hardware is total cra*, not worth the trouble, too. They just want to have your money, lots of it. c***os on the other hand is a completely different story.
1.10.1 Test 14 (Jan 10, 2012)
Since there is no review for this program in last 2 years, I thought I should write a thing or two about it.
1st: This is all you need for transcribing and encoding your videos.
2nd: you can put it and run it from wherever you want. No installation needed. No registry entries. It's simple to learn and work with it.
I use it for about a decade now, and all I can say is - that thing is one of the first things I install, or rather "install" on my computer. Fast as hell. GUI is native to windows, no artificial hardware bull, and that contributes to its speed, too. One of the most useful programs in Windows ever, beside CCleaner, Defraggler, XNView and Firefox.
This man deserves a medal! :) [and FCChandler too, for making all the wonderful plugins for it]
Cheers! Thank you so much for making such a great program for linear editing and encoding!