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Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by IshKebab »

jadbox wrote: post #87
mwexler wrote: post #67

All the comments that "you can just use X to do Y" is missing the point that Paint just works, for almost every value of Y. No argument, Paint.net is great, snipping tool solves the grab and crop, but for most anything else you need to do in a hurry, you need a quick paint program. It's like removing Notepad: we all know hundreds of editors we would replace it with, from Notepad++ to vim/emacs... but isn't nice that…

Woh, why would a distribution drop something as common as grep? Saying you can build it yourself sounds crazy when it always exists and cross-platform...

Maybe they want the core experience to not require ancient command line tools? You don't see many Windows users complaining about the lack of grep.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by profpandit »

mwexler wrote: post #67

All the comments that "you can just use X to do Y" is missing the point that Paint just works, for almost every value of Y. No argument, Paint.net is great, snipping tool solves the grab and crop, but for most anything else you need to do in a hurry, you need a quick paint program. It's like removing Notepad: we all know hundreds of editors we would replace it with, from Notepad++ to vim/emacs... but isn't nice that…

Absolutely. Paint is by a long shot, Microsoft's best product. It's easy to build since it's codebase is pretty small and they haven't changed it much since it was introduced. So it's rock solid. IDK why they're fixing what ain't broke.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by criddell »

willyyr wrote: post #32
cabaalis wrote: post #12

This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?

On Windows 10 try: WIN+SHIFT+S to get instant screen clipping and paste it to e.g. Twitter or whatever.

That does nothing for me. I'm running Windows 10 Pro.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by wang_li »

sjwright wrote: post #76
tritium wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Preview.app fucking sucks. There are a handful of truly obnoxious sins that OS X commits, and not providing a graphics editing application with full access to the pixel raster is one of them. Other sins include no trivial click path to instantiating an empty file on the desktop. One must open an application and either issue a command ( touch or similar) or save an empty file with the application used (TextEdit.app fo…

What you describe as the "dumbing down" of the file system is the inherent consequence of multi-user operating systems, i.e. a bias towards the user's home folders; clearly done to help users better organise their documents. Meanwhile, power users are not even momentarily impeded, with key locations (such as the file system root) readily accessible from the Go menu. Or keyboard shortcuts. Or the terminal. Or from the…

Also abstracting away the local storage device makes a cloud transition a lot easier.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by garaetjjte »

jle17 wrote: post #64
mrec wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Notepad is "weak" for a reason: it aims for absolutely minimal dependencies so that it can still be used for system recovery when everything else has gone to hell in a handbasket. Hard to make that argument for Paint though, I'll grant you.

At the very least they could add support for Unix line breaks...

..and stop using BOM in UTF8 files...

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

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 select a paintbrush.

I understand that every image editor is trying to compete with Photoshop, but sometimes I don't need Photoshop. I just need to paste my clipboard so that I can crop, circle something, or annotate with some text and a crudely drawn arrow. There really is nothing else comparable that can do that as quickly or as easily as Paint.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by jb55 »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #97

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…

> I've gone through multiple image editors on Linux, and none of them have the simplicity of Paint

Have you tried mypaint?

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by nailer »

willyyr wrote: post #32
cabaalis wrote: post #12

This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?

On Windows 10 try: WIN+SHIFT+S to get instant screen clipping and paste it to e.g. Twitter or whatever.

Works fine on Windows 10.0.16241.0

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by graphitezepp »

executesorder66 wrote: post #3
av3csr wrote: post #2

There goes my screenshot editing software

Try Greenshot [0] for taking, and editing screenshots on Windows. [0] http://getgreenshot.org/

Second Greenshot. It satisfyingly solves "turn a specific part of my screen into an image" as smoothly and simply as well as is probably possible.
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