Free photo editors what do you prefer to use? (Review and Analyze)

[mobstermind61]

There is two editors that I know of and use daily, and they consist of Gimp and Paint.net, What do you prefer to use out of these 2 different editors? give me the upsides and the down sides of both of them, Both these free programs have hundreds of plugins to make them all but what Photoshop is. Review and Analyze this.

PAINT.NET

GIMP

Note: Please use details, and weigh out the good and bad out of the two programs.

[thapsangnganha15]

hiiii

[Darkmere]

GIMP is supposed to have a version that is like Photoshop I just dont remember what it is called. I used to like GIMP till I found out that you have to pay for GIMP if you want to have support for anything higher than 8 bit color. Okay I should say donate but still paying