I'm not sure I trust him quite yet. Ubuntu crashed hardcore after I did the 14.04 upgrade so I spent all yesterday using a flashdrive and a live disk to shuttle all my goodies off the hard drive and onto another machine (something that would've taken less than an hour had I not lost my portable hard drive). Anyway, I went from using gimp 2.0 to 2.8 and amongst many improvements, it didn't crash! Not even once! Not even a little one!
Also, note to self: draw more tahrs! That mane was hella fun to doodle. :)