Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now

libra00@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • 48954246@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• madame_gaymes@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Haven’t seen these two paint alternatives mentioned yet:

  1. Krita
  2. Inkscape

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • trashboat@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  GIMP isn’t that hard to use for basics.

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  • Quintus@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Quintus@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        4chan greentext is mostly fanfic, always has been

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      • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lol this resonates with me as a disorganized person

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This one always gets a chuckle out of me.

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      • Quintus@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Glad I made you happy!

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  • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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…

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      • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Works fine every time I’ve used it in Windows, but I do mostly live in Linux now, so your mileage may vary.

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      • libra00@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Huh. I barely used it when I was on linux, so… shrug

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• aradgus@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tux Paint

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