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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by kerbs on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:07AM (#6094612)
Nothing gives me more rage than opening "other" drawing software, selecting the "paint bucket", and clicking anywhere inside an enclosed shape and not seeing it fill with the color I selected.

Layers, vectors. Give me break. MS Paint was more intuitive in the 90's than any software to date.

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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by w0utert on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:36AM (#6094931)
You could argue MS Paint was about as intuitive as the geoPaint application in GEOS on the C64 [1], which has an almost identical feature set and user interface as MS Paint.

I don't really understand why anyone in their right mind would have anything positive to say about MS Paint except that it is ubiquitous, and they remember having fun with it when they were still a kid. It's really a pretty lousy program, more like what you expect from a code sample shipped with a compiler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_%288-bit_operating_system%...

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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by vidarh on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @05:11AM (#6095148)
"Every" 8-bit home computer had similar applications, and much earlier than GEOS too, though GEOS is a good counter-example because its windowed and so much more directly comparable.
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Re:A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Wi... by nickpinkston on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @01:33AM (#6094666)
Hear, hear! I'm not sure why it wasn't copied more widely. Hell, I'm using screenshots / PDFs of my Keynote presentations instead of heavy-weight vector graphics programs.
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