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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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