He would only escape if he was a presidential candidate or a multi billionaire.

Since he is neither and he works on US soil, then the law came after him. You would cave in, if in similar circumstances.

Thanks.

In the meanwhile I discovered PhotoGIMP, which helps with getting basic stuff done through GIMP and addresses some points around image and layer selection and manipulation that used to be so confusing with GIMP.

Ugh I can’t wrap my mind around how weird and unintuitive GIMP feels to use

using systemd instead of rm -Rf is not the Unix way!

These days the unique use case X was designed for is very, very niche. For everyone else, Wayland is the way to go.