by natty dread on Wed Aug 24, 2011 7:42 am
1. Supporting the open-source cause, boycotting patent trolls like Adobe
2. Not wanting to pay huge amounts of cash for a software when you're not using it professionally, ie. not getting money off it
3. Photoshop consumes huge amount of resources, and running the latest version may not even be possible with older hardware. Gimp runs in pretty much anything. Mac, Window, Linux, smartphone... you name it. Heck, you can even run it from a USB drive.
4. Gimp's development is still in progress. It's a much younger software than Photoshop. In certain things it can be considered more advanced than PS, and in others, less. Text handling and vectors in general are something that hasn't been paid too much attention in Gimp development so far, so the text tools are still somewhat primitive. This will hopefully improve in the 2.8 release that is due next December.
However, like I said, there are ways around the limitations, all you need to do is convert the text to a vector path before rotating.