Besides gimp takes ages to load, longer than photoshop. Thats *LONGER LOADING on GIMP* than on photoshop.
plus it doesnt have the same layer effects that i love on photoshop...
Speaking as someone that is running it (GIMP) from an external mass storage, which happens also to be an MP3 player (Creative Zen Nano), and having clocked it's open time at about 4 seconds for the sake of this particular post. I can say, YOU'RE WRONG, and that my friends is from first hand experience.