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  • 11 months

    Welp, time to delete that shit and find replacements. Notepad++ is a solid upgrade over notepad, there must be something similar for paint that doesn’t have a steep learning curve?

    • 11 months

      PaintDotNet is what I used to use on windows. It was a great upgrade without being too complex.

      • 11 months

        PaintDotNet is perfect if you only need some commonly used “pro” features. It’s a relatively easy transition from paint.

        • 11 months

          All I use paint for is like drawing red underlines under text in screen grabs and shit like that. The most ‘pro’ feature I ever use is when I sometimes misclick the rounded rectangle tool instead of the rectangle tool and I’m too lazy to fix it. I’ll give that a shot tho, thanks.

          • 11 months

            Check out greenshot. Has a built-in editor that’s great for quick stuff like this

            • 11 months

              No shit? I’ve been using Greenshot for screenshots for a while (stupid Foxhole closing tooltips whenever I hit shift for the snip tool hotkey) but had no idea it did anything more than that. I’ll take a look, thanks!

      • I think Inkscape is brought up less often because of its focus on vector graphics, which can be confusing to people new to it.

        • 11 months

          Yeah I’ve only used Inkscape a little bit but I would not categorize it as a program that can quickly be picked up

      • 11 months

        I’m using pinta. When I type “paint” in my xfce search bar, it already brings it up automatically.

      • 11 months

        Those are nice tools but they don’t replace paint, they’re way more complex.

        • I never understood this one. What kind of course would you be doing that required very expensive paid software, but you didn’t know ahead of time that said software was required. I think the imaginary OP is just an idiot.

          • 11 months

            I personally think that’s the point. It just mocks the Linux Fanboys.

          • 11 months

            It reads to me more as joke than something that tries to sell itself as a true story

      • 11 months

        Does that even run on windows without a bunch of hoop-jumping and some jank-ass chunky qt-style UI elements? I seriously haven’t looked at GIMP in like 25 years.

        • I’ve been using it off and on for over twenty years and it’s never needed more than running the installer to get it working on Windows in that time…

          • 11 months

            Fair enough, I haven’t looked at it at all since I last used linux a couple decades ago, that’s just been my experience with trying to use other linux-native software on windows.