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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by badsectoracula on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:13AM (#16174869)
> and have yet to find a suitable replacement

There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [2]. There is also Gnome Paint [3], but hasn't seen any update in years. I suppose the closest would be Pinta [4], although that is slightly above MS Paint on the complexity level (probably more comparable to Paint.NET than MS Paint).

> I'm not sure how I feel about it being web-based

Personally i find it amusing and impressive that this implements a Win95-like GUI (i love Win95's GUI :-P) but at the same time the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P.

It is also nice that it has implemented the select+shift+drag brush feature that is ignored by almost every other clone i've seen over the years.

[1] https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/

[2] https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/

[3] https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint

[4] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/

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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by dingo_bat on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:36AM (#16174937)
> actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P.

Works as fast as native paint on my laptop. What browser are you using?

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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by pluma on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:58AM (#16175922)
Same here: no noticeable lag in Firefox on Ubuntu.

I'm guessing Safari on macOS?

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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by rangibaby on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:27AM (#16176017)
no problem with Safari+Macos here
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by badsectoracula on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:50AM (#16177423)
Firefox on Linux
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by Andrenid on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:51AM (#16175433)
> the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P.

It's completely and utterly indistinguishable from a native app on my PC (Firefox 57.0.4 (64-bit) on Windows 10). First thing I noticed was how smooth and flawless it was, even when I expand the canvas and go crazy with every single tool to make a big mess, it didn't slow down once.

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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by pjmlp on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:10AM (#16177094)
Other than using 10x more resources than the original version.
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by tenken on Thursday January 18, 2018 @11:02AM (#16178087)
computers have 1000x more capacity and throughput than the original 486's.

So a 10x bump in resource you say?! -- Hmmm not too shabby for such a faithful clone!

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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by tim333 on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:51PM (#16188172)
On my Macbook Air, with Chrome and High Sierra it managed to crash Chrome impressively and force quit and hitting restart failed to do much. I actually had to hit the power button which is kind of unusual on a Macbook.
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by esolyt on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:42AM (#16175862)
> Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent

Not really. It has many issues.

The left toolbar is not dockable. I find it annoying that I have to do window management withing a single application.

That and the fact that it asks for the canvas size everytime I launch it.

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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by badsectoracula on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:52AM (#16177434)
Aren't Mac applications supposed to have their toolbars as separate windows? Pixelmator (at least the pre-App Store version i have) does the same, as did some other apps i've tried at the past.
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by vonseel on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:29PM (#16179846)
This is very much on a case-by-case basis. Unless by toolbar you mean the menubar at the top of screen which changes for each application.
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by janci on Thursday January 18, 2018 @02:00AM (#16175252)
KolourPaint is very close. GIMP is great, but simple operations (ie. screenshot-crop-higlight-annotate) get complicated (layers, floating layers, text layers, alpha)
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by fithisux on Thursday January 18, 2018 @03:19AM (#16175521)
Lazpaint seems another handy option. I used it for years.
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by bwbw223 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:02PM (#16181420)
I can imagine that updates aren't really necessary in a simple image editor ;)
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by motherdearest on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:17AM (#16176250)
I'm not experiencing any of that. Works immediately for me at this time
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Re:JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake by vonseel on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:27PM (#16179816)
No performance issue on iOS iPhone 7.
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