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That's... an unfortunate name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile
Nonsense. Jim is a very common name, too widespread to be impacted by one bad guy.
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Nonsense. Jim is a very common name, too widespread to be impacted by one bad guy.
GP wasn't comparing just the name "Jim" , it was comparing "Jim'll Paint It" to "Jim'll Fix It" . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%27ll_Fix_It
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I recommend everyone on HN using Windows to use Chocolatey and Chocolatey GUI to install their software. Chocolatey is a package manager / "app store" for FOSS and other free-to-install software on Windows. Downloading random installers was always flawed, but it's not getting any better. Chocolatey is the best you can get as a Homebrew/Homebrew Cask equivalent on Windows, and even if it takes some getting used to is…
These days I prefer https://scoop.sh/ . Chocolatey is fine but it would sometimes cause problems which I frankly don't remember. With scoop I've had no issues.
I'm guessing the HN crowd can use either. A big plus for Chocolatey is that it has an official GUI (Scoop seems to have GUIs as well, but they are unofficial), which improves discoverability for everyone and makes it easier to extend the recommendation to users with lower technical skills. Chocolatey and its GUI are a bit clunky compared to my Unix-based package manager tuned taste (and Windows is missing a good sudo equivalent), but it's such a big improvement over the Windows tradition of chasing installers on the internet.
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In fact, you don't need to go to all this trouble if you don't want to. Someone has made a web-based version of paint you can use right from your browser, even if you don't have Windows installed. Link: https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html
That link is … well, the link for this thread.
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I find Paint.NET excellent for both basic scenarios and advanced ones too (it supports layers, effects etc). Strongly recommended. https://getpaint.net It's free but it's also available in Microsoft Store as a paid product, which gets automatic updates as a small extra and mostly works as a donation towards the developer.
I love Paint .NET, but I wince every time I go to their website (which is not paint.net) to download it: the download button[1] gives me strong "clicking this will give you a shareware virus from 2005" vibe. It is also very sketchy that their website (getpaint.net) redirects to another site (dotpdn.com) for the actual download page. I power through these feelings and download it anyway, knowing what wonderful softwar…
As much as I enjoy this, I feel for it to really shine would be a desktop version, not locked into the browser. I think a Chromium/Electron app would be fine.
I couldn't disagree more. An entire electron app just for mspaint? That's ridiculous.
As much as I enjoy this, I feel for it to really shine would be a desktop version, not locked into the browser. I think a Chromium/Electron app would be fine.
How will it differ? In both cases you'll be running a web browser. At least right now you don't have to install another one.
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How will it differ? In both cases you'll be running a web browser. At least right now you don't have to install another one.
I don't want to have to go to a web address to use it.