Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by jadbox on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:45AM (#14838827)

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...

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by markrages on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:48AM (#14838847)

Twas satire

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by IshKebab on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:48AM (#14838850)

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.

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by castis on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:15AM (#14839103)

I don't see many Windows users hanging out in the CLI for extended periods of time, either. Even though OP wasn't serious about fedora nixing grep, surely you see the lack of equivalence in that argument.

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by codefined on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:01PM (#14839579)

When Windows users want to hang out in the CLI they virtualise Linux or use cmder[0].

[0] http://cmder.net/

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by kevstev on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:33PM (#14839882)

I would argue that they used cygwin, and now they have the option of using WSL- which I have been using for the last two months, and thus far has met my CLI needs.

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Re:Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years by adventist on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:40PM (#14842966)

Windows subsystem for Linux is what I spend most of my time in now.

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