• Libra00
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    4918 days ago

    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?

    • Bezier
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      3918 days ago

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

      • Alphane Moon
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        1218 days ago

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

        • Libra00
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          418 days 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.

            • Libra00
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              218 days ago

              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!

      • Snot Flickerman
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        1318 days 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.

        • @trashboat@midwest.social
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          518 days 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

      • @dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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        118 days ago

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

      • Libra00
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        118 days 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.

        • Laurel Raven
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          218 days 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…

          • Libra00
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            118 days 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.

        • Snot Flickerman
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          118 days ago

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

          • Libra00
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            218 days ago

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