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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by Santosh83 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:13PM (#22277327)
They're really pushing the Paint3D app, the Mixed Reality Viewer and the Photos app to take over Paint's roles and beyond. As for Wordpad they probably will deprecate and disable to gently nudge people to online Office 365 cloud subscriptions. Another reason I suppose is to decouple these apps from Windows system so their replacements can be updated through the store instead of waiting for OS feature updates.
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by nathanaldensr on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:22PM (#22277391)
Paint3D is an atrocious, poorly-designed app. Tools are all over the place, familiar shortcuts have disappeared, and the UI looks like it was designed for the Windows 8 vision of Windows-on-a-tablet. No thanks. WIN+R, mspaint, ENTER--every time.
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by m-p-3 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:48PM (#22277913)
Paint.NET is a worthy replacement to MSPaint, and I'm glad it exists. It IMO manage to balance simplicity and features that is quite accessible to an average user.
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by lazarljubenovic on Saturday February 08, 2020 @11:38PM (#22280420)
jspaint.app ftw
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by leeoniya on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:09PM (#22277682)
> WIN+R, mspaint, ENTER--every time.

i prefer https://www.getpaint.net/

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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by smacktoward on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:12PM (#22277713)
I would prefer https://www.getpaint.net, if that web site weren't littered with misleading ad units designed to trick people who want to download the Paint.NET software into actually downloading adware.

As it stands, I can't in good conscience tell people to go to that site. Even if the actual Paint.NET software is good, the risk is just too high they'll end up installing something nasty.

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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by leeoniya on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:35PM (#22277855)
yeah, it's unfortunate, but they need to make money somehow. at least they're not bundling anything with the install (AFAIK)

https://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html

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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by m-p-3 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:49PM (#22277920)
Or you can buy it on the MS Store to contribute.
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by leeoniya on Saturday February 08, 2020 @03:07PM (#22278031)
or donate directly
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by Dylan16807 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:24PM (#22277784)
Send them to Ninite?
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by LetThereBeNick on Saturday February 08, 2020 @04:21PM (#22278430)
“Ctrl+Alt+P” does it for me. Right click a paint shortcut > Properties > Shortcut > type “P” :)
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by falcor84 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:38PM (#22277864)
WIN+R, pbrush, ENTER => save yourself one keystroke :)
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by arminiusreturns on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:27PM (#22277421)
Use rufus to burn a linux iso and install over the top. No more windows. Really need something? Run it in wine.

Break away from Microsofts abusive ecosystem.

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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by colejohnson66 on Sunday February 09, 2020 @10:00AM (#22282416)
I use Linux as my main box, and Wine doesn’t really cut it. I don’t like having to mess with winetricks to get programs to work, and even then, some (like Visual Studio) still don’t work.

If I could just run an exe and Wine would detect what winetricks I need and install them then, that’d be great. (No, I can’t just install them all as I like to use different prefixes for each program)

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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by m-p-3 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:50PM (#22277926)
If you're a gamer who relies on multiplayer, some anticheats (ie: EAC) makes this an impossibility.
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by gambiting on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:10PM (#22277698)
Visual Studio doesn't run in Wine as far as I know.
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by ta999999171 on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:47PM (#22277905)
VSCode is cross platform, what does Visual Studio do that it can't?
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by gambiting on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:52PM (#22279448)
We build games for PS4 and Xbox One, as far as I know neither SDK has integrations for VS Code.

Can you do assembly view and memory editing in VS Code by the way? I honestly don't know.

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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by nullvoxpopuli on Saturday February 08, 2020 @11:10PM (#22280357)
VS Code isn't an IDE, as much as people want it to be
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by wayneftw on Sunday February 09, 2020 @02:36PM (#22283873)
Yes it is. IDE = integrated development environment.

It has integrated git. It has integrated debuggers. It has integrated database tools. It has integration on tap, with extensions.

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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by ta999999171 on Sunday February 09, 2020 @12:54AM (#22280618)
> what does Visual Studio do that it can't?

This wasn't argumentative, this was a genuine question - could you shed some light?

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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by deadcat on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:49PM (#22279438)
If you are writing .net core sure. Otherwise you are going to hit issues building and debugging. Why you would be attempting that outside of a Windows VM, I'm not sure.
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by recursive on Saturday February 08, 2020 @08:52PM (#22279892)
Just because I have no reason to run a VM. VS runs fine outside a VM.
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Re:Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features by zamadatix on Saturday February 08, 2020 @06:01PM (#22279206)
Outside of Paint3D I don't think any of those were/are related to the classic mspaint. Mixed reality is new (and not really related to paint) but Photos was clearly there to supplant Windows Photo Viewer.
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