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Pity that they don't open source it. I've gone through multiple image editors on Linux, and none of them have the simplicity of Paint. The layout and functionality is incredibly intuitive. You drop someone into Paint, and even if they've never seen it before, they can start doing stuff within a minute or so. You drop the same person into GIMP, and five minutes later they're still trying to figure out how the hell to…
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> And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day. Agree. I bought an iPhone 7 and now I never listen to music or podcasts with it, a very unexpected side effect of not having a headphone jack.
Why would you buy a phone without an earphone jack? Knock on wood that's something I'd never agree to do :-)
Is Kitra the best alternative? https://krita.org/en/ This is an opportunity for open source options to get a lot more users.
Krita is an alternative to MS Paint in the same way that operating a railway network is an alternative to driving a bicycle: it does much more with far greater hardware, software, user effort and user experience requirements. Additionally, the specific focus on high-end painting using a tablet means that emulating MS Paint with pixel-perfect drawing, crisp shapes and palettes has halfhearted support or needs clever w…
I think that is too harsh. Although Krita can do more than Paint the user-experience is pretty well done and it also works for basic tasks providing useful defaults.
Pity that they don't open source it. I've gone through multiple image editors on Linux, and none of them have the simplicity of Paint. The layout and functionality is incredibly intuitive. You drop someone into Paint, and even if they've never seen it before, they can start doing stuff within a minute or so. You drop the same person into GIMP, and five minutes later they're still trying to figure out how the hell to…
An identical open source Paint re-implementation is available on ReactOS, the free open Windows re-implementation: http://www.ReactOS.org You can download it from the package manager, and use it on Windows or Wine too. (Maybe WineHQ ships it as well)
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Doesn't Windows include both the old calculator and the new calculator? I'm on Windows 8 and I have both.
10 yanks away calc.exe and replaces it with the metro version. You have to grab an old copy if you want the original back.
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Perhaps similar to Notepad, which has been more or less feature-complete since Windows 2000 or so. I guess it is also internally "deprecated", but will continue to be shipped for quite a while. Microsoft doesn't tend to break such things. In Paint's case, I'd guess the most that will happen is that it will vanish from the Start menu, but the executable will still be there.
Notepad needs support for unix style line endings to be able to function as a basic text editor. As it stands I always install notepad++.
See my comment about Metapad in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14840791
It supports both Unix and DOS/Windows line endings (LF and CR+LF). Also a few other options.
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Doesn't Windows include both the old calculator and the new calculator? I'm on Windows 8 and I have both.
>>I'm on Windows 8 Genuinely curious, why?
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You might be interested in switching to Greenshot. The workflows that you described will go much quicker since it pops up a menu of quick actions to take after you press Print Scrn. For screenshots that you want to review later, you just tell Greenshot to save directly to a file that it automatically names with a timestamp. To do quick edits, you can open your screenshot in the built-in editor. Or, you can open them…
It took me a few minutes to compose the same reply. Try Greenshot: http://getgreenshot.org/ It's open-source, no-nonsense, free software. It takes your 9 keystrokes plus multiple clicks to crop down to one key: PrtScn. The built-in image editor is optimized for the things that you need to do with screenshots. Here's a quick guide I threw together: https://i.imgur.com/tcpZjG0.png Yeah, it was a bit of a mind-bender ed…
Ha ha, I had the same thought just now, after trying out the (plain) PrintScreen command in DanBC's comment here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839229
Before that, I'd always used just Alt-PrintScreen to take a screenshot of only a specific window, not the whole screen.
So, to try it, I arranged a few app windows in cascaded style (including Paint itself), then did PrintScreen, then pasted the screenshot of Paint (plus other apps) into Paint ...
Who GNU that ...
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An identical open source Paint re-implementation is available on ReactOS, the free open Windows re-implementation: http://www.ReactOS.org You can download it from the package manager, and use it on Windows or Wine too. (Maybe WineHQ ships it as well)
How stable is ReactOS, and does it have a fairly good set of features for a desktop OS? Had read about it earlier, never tried it out.
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Agreed! Paint was the only Microsoft product that I actually loved.
They did the same thing with the calculator, turning what is probably the simplest app on the entire computer into a Metro-ified flat-design-meme store-dependent mess for absolutely no benefit.