[HN Gopher] Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency ...
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Paint on Windows is getting layers and transparency support
Author : michelangelo
Score : 192 points
Date : 2023-09-18 17:34 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blogs.windows.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (blogs.windows.com)
| enonimal wrote:
| Gearing up to integrate image generation, I'd guess
| [deleted]
| codetrotter wrote:
| Probably yes. The video in the article shows background removal
| with a single click of the mouse after all - i.e subject
| isolation using AI.
|
| It would be a logical next step at some point to integrate AI
| image generation as well, using OpenAI Dall-E.
| [deleted]
| speedgoose wrote:
| It's perhaps going to be the Bing version of OpenAI Dall-E,
| which is some kind of version 2.5
| issafram wrote:
| Paint.net will still be the best free alternative to Photoshop
| tombert wrote:
| I always kind of felt that Microsoft should have made gradual
| updates to Paint. I'm not saying that they should be itching to
| take on Photoshop or anything, but I feel that between Windows 95
| until Windows Vista, Paint was pretty much unchanged.
|
| I think it would have been kind of cool if they kept a small team
| dedicated to making Paint gradually better, getting it into
| parity with something like Paint.NET or something like that.
| toyg wrote:
| On one hand, yes; but on the other: people underestimate the
| value of consistency. Not changing is _a feature_ for so many
| people who are already content with the existing program.
| Change for change 's sake is not always good.
| tombert wrote:
| I'm not suggesting that they just add a million new features
| every release, but I feel like adding transparent
| backgrounds, even in 2002 or so, would not have interrupted
| any existing workflows or anything.
|
| I feel like there was a lot of low hanging fruit that they
| could have added that left the interface largely untouched;
| they could also have had a "basic" and "advanced" layout,
| where the "basic" keeps things more or less how they were in
| Windows 95, and advanced is for integrating new features.
| nashashmi wrote:
| Transparency has been the longest missing feature in mspaint.
| Quite frustrating it took so long.
| JoeAltmaier wrote:
| Seems like a lot to add to such a simple program. I bet they
| didn't do that.
|
| Years ago I re-released an old and honored tool. A strange path.
|
| It was the simple code editor used on an early office computer.
| The programmers all used it daily.
|
| First, the source was gone. The team that made it, the last
| remaining member that remembered it, said "It was just a
| checkpointed version of our general document editor. We've
| continued development and have a hundred more features now."
|
| Moving to the document editor wouldn't do. Can't have programmers
| confused by formatting and mail-merge features on a C source
| file.
|
| So I took the current Document Designer source, ripped out
| everything formatting-related, kept some useful multi-document
| features. Added some special programmer-specific features (paste-
| to-anchor point etc for fast prototyping). Got something not too
| much larger than the old Editor, and much much smaller than the
| latest document tool.
|
| And...hardly anybody used it. Even a little change from ol
| faithful was too much for most of the teams. No surprise; their
| job was writing code, not relearning tools to write code.
|
| Anyway I had my own personal useful tool after that. Even if I
| was the only one that knew how to use it.
| ilyt wrote:
| Just preinstall Krita at that point...
| cout wrote:
| I wonder what file format they will use to save layers. Does the
| PNG format support layers?
| gigglesupstairs wrote:
| PNG does support layers. Yes. I remember using it in Macromedia
| Fireworks which had a native format PNG which functioned like
| Photoshop's PSD and saved layers and its styles and stuff.
| Explore3003 wrote:
| JPEG XL support would be great!
| k12sosse wrote:
| You can tell windows 3.1 users by how they open this app - back
| on 16-bit windows it was pbrush.exe - 32-bit it was renamed
| mspaint.exe - but both launch it.
| crawsome wrote:
| Given the treatment they gave the photo viewer, asking people to
| sign-up for a subscription-based video editor, I have low hopes
| for these features to arrive without paying a hefty non-optional
| cost.
| charles_f wrote:
| At some level I feel like they should just drop paint and install
| paint.net as a default.
|
| But then, that would probably get paint.net on a downward spiral,
| so maybe it's for the best?
| haunter wrote:
| Paint.NET was open source (MIT) until 2009, alas nothing
| happened from the forks after they changed the license.
|
| Code is still available, not sure worth building though in 2023
| when there are other options
|
| https://code.google.com/archive/p/openpdn/
|
| https://github.com/rivy/OpenPDN/
| sbjs wrote:
| What's the best alternative?
| haunter wrote:
| The current Paint.NET is really good and obviously has much
| more features compared to since the version from 2009. But
| it's not FOSS which can be a deal breaker for some.
|
| If FOSS then Pinta [0] is the best option imo. GIMP is not
| bad either but feels very janky and all over the place
| sometimes (lacking some elementary features while overblown
| in other departments)
|
| Krita [1] is the other one I'd recommend though it's a
| digital painting app, not a image editing one. But you can
| do edit images with it
|
| 0, https://www.pinta-project.com/
|
| 1, https://krita.org/en/
| jmkni wrote:
| I think Paint.net is largely worked on and maintained by one
| guy, so I don't really blame him from wanting to make some
| money out of his work tbh
|
| It's a great tool.
| charles_f wrote:
| I mean, give him a million, get the product, rename it
| paint, and suddenly paint on windows supports much more
| than just layers and transparency.
| ajdude wrote:
| One of my favorite "MS Paint" clones is KolourPaint[1]. I've been
| using it for over a decade (you have to search around to get it
| on non-linux platforms but I presently have it on MacOS). One of
| my favorite features is how it handles transparency, where it's
| just treated like another "color".
|
| If anyone is heavy into pixel art, you may also be interested in
| Aseprite[2].
|
| [1] http://www.kolourpaint.org/
|
| [2] https://www.aseprite.org/
| alexmolas wrote:
| I didn't know Pain was still updated. I guess they are preparing
| it to be another player in the generative AI race.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| _> I didn't know Pain was still updated_
|
| Sadly pain is always up to date :(
| distract8901 wrote:
| They added Bing to goddamn Notepad
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| Where? I don't see it and I'm up to date.
| thefifthsetpin wrote:
| Just hit F1.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| How is that "Bing in Notepad"?
| soupfordummies wrote:
| Yeah I really hope they're joking!
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| I think he's just spreading FUD.
| distract8901 wrote:
| I don't think you understand what FUD means.
|
| Hint: it does not mean "things I disagree with or don't
| understand"
| artursapek wrote:
| lol
| nullbyte wrote:
| It brings me so much joy to know that Paint is still under active
| development.
| xp84 wrote:
| Nice. Basically this gets it to parity with the feature-set I
| _actually used_ in Photoshop when I pirated it as a teen. I
| assume most people with straightforward needs who aren 't pirates
| are going to be really happy to be able to just use this. Think
| about people editing a meme graphic or "photoshopping" an extra
| person into an image for non-serious purposes.
|
| (Sidenote: Shoutout for Pixelmator Pro, the Mac app that
| similarly has more than enough for me, and has allowed me to stop
| needing Photoshop. I've never bought an Adobe product outside of
| work, and now I don't use any either.)
| gus_massa wrote:
| I use Gimp most of the times. But when I have to edit a few
| isolated pixels of a geometric black image over a plain white
| background I prefer to use Paint. I can't find how to make Gimp
| modify only one pixel without blurring all the neighbors.
| tyingq wrote:
| Paint.Net is a nice middle ground between the two.
| circuit10 wrote:
| I like it but it's not available on Linux, so I use Pinta
| which is a fork of an old version of Paint.NET from when it
| was open source, it's not quite as good though
| knome wrote:
| Are you using the paintbrush tool instead of the pencil tool?
| A pencil with the brush size turned down to one shouldn't
| bother any of the other pixels.
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| >can't find how to make Gimp modify only one pixel without
| blurring all the neighbors
|
| Use pencil tool set to size 1px. Pencil does no blurring;
| paintbrush does.
| bgarbiak wrote:
| IIRC the pencil tool in Gimp draws hard-edged pixels without
| any extra configuration.
| [deleted]
| thot_experiment wrote:
| and here I am, carting around my mspaint.exe from install to
| install since windows2k or something, because I've got Krita for
| when I want something to launch slowly and have a bunch of
| features that aren't useful for drawing an arrow on a screenshot
|
| (modern paint seems fine, and it does launch quickly, but the
| vibes are off)
| andrewstuart wrote:
| Microsoft should just buy paint.net
| pipeline_peak wrote:
| Microsoft could whip up paint.net in 1 day.
|
| There's a component in WPF called InkCanvas, it pretty much is
| Paint.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| >> could whip up paint.net in 1 day.
|
| You realise this is basically an HN meme?
| pipeline_peak wrote:
| > You realise this is basically an HN meme?
|
| No, not really. It's a simple program and Microsoft would
| literally just need to glue together their own existing
| components.
|
| I did it for a job interview project in 4 days using C# and
| WPF. And I am by no means a talented developer.
|
| I could see when people think creating something like Uber
| in a day as an arrogant HN meme. But there's no moving
| parts here.
| owlstuffing wrote:
| Microsoft should just replace Paint with Paint.NET. In my
| experience, it is the best paint tool for Windows. Much more
| intuitive UI than photoshop or gimp.
| imiric wrote:
| I find it surprising that MS hasn't acquired Paint.NET. It's a
| stellar product, a decent free Photoshop alternative, and miles
| ahead of whatever MS Paint ever was. It even has .NET in the
| name, which probably confuses new users into thinking it is owned
| by MS, so kind of surprised MS hasn't sued over that either.
|
| That said, I'm grateful that Paint.NET has managed to remain
| independent, as MS might've ruined it.
|
| I do wonder who still uses MS Paint that would find these new
| features compelling, and why MS keeps adding new features to it.
| Surely they've done some research that shows people want this? Or
| is it still developed to justify paying the team that maintains
| it?
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| I like MS paint because I know exactly what it is. Starts
| instantly and can be used to quickly crop a photo or hastily
| circle a call out. No UI redesigns to make a developer feel
| useful.
|
| If we were talking acquisitions, they should also buy up the
| Notepad++ guy.
| [deleted]
| itisit wrote:
| > It even has .NET in the name, which probably confuses new
| users into thinking it is owned by MS, so kind of surprised MS
| hasn't sued over that either.
|
| Not sure where the infringement would be. In any case,
| Paint.NET won second place last year in the "Creativity -
| Graphics and 3D" category of the Microsoft Store App Awards.
| [0]
|
| [0]
| https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2022/05/27/announ...
| smegsicle wrote:
| uh oh mtpaint starting to feel real competition
| michaelhoffman wrote:
| I hope it keeps its blazing-fast startup. I regularly used Paint
| instead of Photoshop on a system where I had both because Paint
| starts instantly but Photoshop took a bit.
| jjcm wrote:
| I use photopea quite a bit for this reason. It's faster to open
| this in a web browser than it is to boot photoshop. The 1/3rd
| sidebar ad it loads is... a lot, but I'm amazed that I prefer
| that to a 30s boot time.
| harles wrote:
| I was just reflecting on why I fire up Paint more often than
| GIMP, and this is the reason. Especially when all I want to do
| is paste an image, add a small annotation, and copy it back
| out, there's no tool as fast.
| sebmaynard wrote:
| Lightshot is a great app for exactly this. And lines, boxes
| etc
| Tempest1981 wrote:
| Indeed. Also, I just read that mouse-wheel lets you adjust
| the line/arrow size...
| dingnuts wrote:
| You can do all this in the snipping tool without opening a
| separate app, which is in fact a little faster
| cfiggers wrote:
| Yes, except (unless I'm mistaken) the snipping tool can't
| add text and it can't draw boxes, which are two of the core
| use cases of screenshot annotation.
| jve wrote:
| https://getgreenshot.org/ Fast, doesn't crash, does what
| you say and more.
| IG_Semmelweiss wrote:
| i use monosnap for this reason (free version)
|
| The number of times it crashes vs snipping tool, its like
| night and day.
|
| yet i keep coming back for monosnap.... it made my
| snippets look somewhat professional (gone handwritten
| arrows lol)
| badsectoracula wrote:
| It is basically why i have KolourPaint installed on Linux and
| ready on a launch button despite having a bunch of other 2D
| image editing apps: it starts (almost[0]) instantly and is
| perfectly fine for cropping images, adding annotations, etc
| and then pasting it to imgur, discord, or whatever. The only
| thing missing is having a tool to draw shapes like arrows
| (not something the Win9x era MS Paint, which is what
| KolourPaint replicates, had, but it would be a useful feature
| IMO).
|
| [0] it takes somewhere between half to a second, there is a
| visible delay between double click and the window appearing
| but i can live with that. I'm not using KDE as my DE, it is
| possible it'd start instantly if i already had the KDE libs
| in memory.
| masfuerte wrote:
| Read the headline and thought... they did this in Windows 2000.
| But they are not talking about UpdateLayeredWindow.
| hackermatic wrote:
| Paint's journey has been so weird. It was going to be replaced by
| Paint 3D, made an optional component, and now it's getting
| updates I would have killed to have 20 years ago. But it's been
| such a useful and enduring tool because of both its ubiquity and
| its simplicity, so I hope the upcoming changes will be as
| minimalist as those of the past.
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| Considering how slow the new calculator app is, I am terrified
| of Microsoft updating the classics. These things used to open
| instantly and provide value. Now it is a visible pause and
| gigantic white space heavy interfaces.
| stainablesteel wrote:
| my perspective: i left windows years ago and i never laugh at
| any comedian as much as i laugh at people in windows update
| threads
| pjmlp wrote:
| A side effect from app sandboxing, and modern Windows API
| being all COM based.
| blibble wrote:
| they'll probably add ads and a subscription
|
| like solitaire
| Tempest1981 wrote:
| Pay for extended precision, or an LCD font
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| _> Considering how slow the new calculator app is_
|
| What's bad about it? For me it always does the job whenever I
| fire it up. Looks sleek, clean, scales nicely to whatever
| size you make it, and isn't distracting.
| sccxy wrote:
| I also like new calculator app in windows.
|
| TBH date calculator is my most used feature there.
|
| But calculator app in macOS... Real horror.
|
| Try to open units converter from top app menus.
| hulitu wrote:
| You worked all life as a cashier with a hand calculator 15
| x 15 cm ( 5 x 5 in).
|
| One day your boss comes: your calculator is obsolete, you
| need to use the one on the wall with every number being 25
| x 25 cm (10 x 10 in). Good luck
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| Your PC keyboard didn't change though. The numbers and
| arithmetic symbols are still in the same places they've
| been for ~80 years.
|
| Also, the new calculator kept the same standard layout as
| before, it's not like they now shuffled the numbers and
| buttons aground randomly to confuse you. If you're that
| easily confused by a coat of paint, maybe you're in the
| wrong job.
|
| And yes, workers did have to switch calculators from time
| to time. Source: my mom, an accountant.
|
| I get it, "Microsoft bad, Windows bad", but your argument
| is a very weak nothingburger.
| godd2 wrote:
| > scales nicely to whatever size you make it
|
| In Programmer mode if you type in a number larger than 32
| bits and the window is scaled to its smallest size, the
| lower row of binary is cut off a little bit.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| Horrible. Unusable.
| gibolt wrote:
| How many adults are being distracted by the Windows
| calculator app?
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| That's asking the right questions.
| [deleted]
| benbristow wrote:
| Is it? Just opened it on Windows 10 and it opens instantly
| and uses 23MB of RAM which is rather low for a modern
| application. Calculator is also fully open source now.
|
| https://github.com/microsoft/calculator
| Piisamirotta wrote:
| Ah. I really hate Windows calculator nowadays. When looking
| for alternatives I found SpeedCrunch
| (https://heldercorreia.bitbucket.io/speedcrunch/). So far I
| have loved it, even did some regedit to open it from
| keyboard's calculator button.
| yndoendo wrote:
| Qalculate is my go-to for cross platform calculator that is
| useful and is not limited to the most basic +-*/
| operations. https://qalculate.github.io/
| naikrovek wrote:
| the new calculator app is open source, you can see what's
| making it so slow if you want, and contribute fixes if you
| have the skills to do the fixing.
|
| MIT license.
|
| https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/
| iggldiggl wrote:
| Unfortunately some issues have been declared as "by
| design". E.g. due to a rigid interpretation of some
| accessibility guideline, the fact that clicking on the
| history or trigonometry menus moves the input focus there,
| so Numpad Enter suddenly starts re-opening that menu
| instead of pressing '=' is apparently perfectly intended
| and definitively not a bug.
| tpush wrote:
| Microsoft requires contributors to sign a CLA giving
| Microsoft effective ownership over your contributions.
|
| You should never be working for a for-profit organization
| without compensation.
| naikrovek wrote:
| so fork it and work on it yourself.
|
| do I have to tell everyone what the MIT license allows?
| eddythompson80 wrote:
| Not arguing for contributing to Microsoft's repos, but
| most open source projects under most well respected
| foundations do the same. There is a big argument for or
| against CLAs but it's not like it's just them.
| tpush wrote:
| Yes, lots of organizations want free labor. That has no
| bearing on whether its ethical.
|
| There's a somewhat decent argument to be made for non-
| profit organizations, but there's none for for-profit
| orgs like Microsoft.
| [deleted]
| naikrovek wrote:
| successfully reach out to all contributors to the Linux
| kernel and then tell me CLAs are bad for a corporation.
|
| you open source people, man. you give all developers a
| horrible reputation. put up or shut up, lol
| saagarjha wrote:
| I am being compensated by the things I use getting
| better.
| codetrotter wrote:
| Why would anyone want to do free work for Microsoft?
| pjmlp wrote:
| They shouldn't, other than provides a good entry on the
| CV, that is all.
| dingnuts wrote:
| This is the correct response. Telling community members
| that they can fix bugs in libre, community-supported
| software is one thing.
|
| Telling /users/ who are NOT community members to make
| changes to some corporation's application that happens to
| have source available, in their free time, and then
| donate that labor to some billion dollar corporation?
| fuck THAT.
|
| Fix it your own damn self, Microsoft. I have better shit
| to do.
| naikrovek wrote:
| open source software should not be contributed to? I can
| not understand open source people, man.
|
| it only counts if it has "libre" in the name? MIT-
| licensed isn't good enough? WTF
| dagaci wrote:
| Because it makes the things they use better mostly, they
| are => https://github.com/microsoft/calculator/graphs/con
| tributors
| rappatic wrote:
| This isn't justification for an app being bad. A company
| shouldn't release a broken and slow app on an OS I _pay
| for_ and you can 't make it seem like that's okay simply
| because Microsoft took ten minutes to put the code on
| Github. At that rate, why put effort into improving apps at
| all if users will do free work for you?
| naikrovek wrote:
| so make it less bad, or stop complaining.
|
| if you're complaining without a plan of action to address
| the complaint, you are speaking for attention alone.
|
| fork it and fix it, then use that version. open your fork
| so you can help others.
|
| you other commenters can continue to complain and whine
| endlessly or you can put your money where your mouth is
| and actually do something.
|
| what's it gonna be?
| dmitrygr wrote:
| > Considering how slow the new calculator app is
|
| Am I really the only person who has a copy of "calc.exe" from
| win 2000 that replaces c:\windows\calc.exe immediately after
| any windows [re]install?
| MenhirMike wrote:
| The fact that the calculator has a $#!"@ hamburger menu to
| switch between Programmer and "can do floating point numbers"
| mode is one of those asinine UX decisions that makes me fear
| any app update - "Oh hey, they're adding a neat feature,
| let's see how they mess up UX on it" is my default reaction
| nowadays.
|
| And yes, Notepad and Calculator take much longer to start now
| than they ever did - not sure if it's SmartScreen, a Store
| Update check, or if SEND_DIAGNOSTICS is enabled on production
| builds, but I bet it's some Program Manager making some
| idiotic decision because some useless KPI requires it.
| 3seashells wrote:
| Calculator is slow calculator now, for calculated promotion
| points.
| bee_rider wrote:
| Wait, what is the difference between "programmer mode" and
| "can do floating point numbers" mode? The former implies
| the latter, right?
| godd2 wrote:
| You cannot enter fractional values in programmer mode.
|
| This is reasonable, but what is incredibly annoying is
| that when you type in a number while in Programmer mode,
| if you then change to Scientific mode, it blows away the
| number you typed in.
| MenhirMike wrote:
| Programmer mode is useful if you need to convert
| Decimal/Hex/Binary, but if you try to enter e.g, 17.95 as
| a decimal number, you can't. (In fact, it'll display 17
| NAND 95 - so the dot seems to be a shortcut for a bitwise
| operation) - it's Integers Only.
|
| (I guess one could argue that programmer mode should
| include IEEE-754 floats, but I'm fine with that mode
| being limited to integers, it's plenty useful already.
| But it does require switching to another mode if you need
| a calculator to calculate floating point numbers)
| grishka wrote:
| > a $#!"@ hamburger menu
|
| Touchscreen-first design does this to apps -\\_(tsu)_/-
| MenhirMike wrote:
| There would be plenty of space for humongous buttons to
| touch and only use the hamburger when the app is really
| small. But yeah, it's not touchscreen, it's that everyone
| designs exclusively for 6" screens these days, which also
| explains why 60% of modern apps is just useless
| whitespace :/
| grishka wrote:
| > everyone designs exclusively for 6" screens these days
|
| Technically incorrect, I don't ;)
| bluSCALE4 wrote:
| After I found out that in GTA5, bad code loading a large
| JSON file made boot time jump from 2m to 6m, up to 15m. The
| JSON file was for in-game purchases, aka useless.
| zerocrates wrote:
| Though I believe that was a delay specifically for GTA
| Online only, and those purchases are absolutely the key
| and only point of the online mode for Rockstar.
|
| Of course that doesn't mean it should have been loading
| so inefficiently regardless.
| frenchy wrote:
| The next verison of GTA should be a game where you get a
| gig with a corporation called Rockstar, and all your jobs
| are focused around making them money.
| MarkSweep wrote:
| The really damning UI feature of calculator, at least
| during the beginning of Windows 10, was the splash screen
| (aka loading screen). I understand that's a standard
| feature of UWP apps, but the fact it was on screen long
| enough to be noticed was unacceptable.
| conductr wrote:
| > "Oh hey, they're adding a neat feature, let's see how
| they mess up UX on it"
|
| It still feels like they just break UX to support touch
| devices better than older UI would. I might just be showing
| my age, or out of touch, or perhaps because I only use
| Windows for work but I have no intention of ever using
| touch on a device running Windows. My laptop screen support
| touch and I turn it off as it's and unexpected behavior to
| me (if I touch my screen I'm probably just pointing at
| something/showing to another person).
| RajT88 wrote:
| Windows 11 snipping tool is unnecessarily clunky and garbage
| as well.
|
| What I do on any Win11 machine is keep an archived copy of
| Windows 10's System32 folder, and pin the old copies of apps
| to my start menu.
|
| ...From my cold dead hands!
| gibolt wrote:
| Yeah, Mac solved this so elegantly.
|
| Windows really needs a simple default hotkey to do a
| partial screen capture quickly, and save it to a reasonable
| directory.
| hulitu wrote:
| Printscreen to capture the whole screen. Alt +
| Printscreen to capture the current active window.
| fortran77 wrote:
| Have you ever used Windows?
| adrenvi wrote:
| Win + Shift + S allows you to select a rectangular region
| and copy the image data to clipboard.
| secondcoming wrote:
| Yes. This changed my life. I use it every day.
| zadjii wrote:
| I mean, win+shift+s (the default snipping tool hotkey) to
| grab a snip is pretty elegant IMO. Copies it straight to
| the clipboard, or lets you save (& edit) it from the
| notification. Probably one of my most used shortcuts.
| koolant wrote:
| Win + Shift + S has been there for ages now.
| rkagerer wrote:
| When I installed Windows 7, I copied the old mspaint
| executable over and kept using it, as I hate the stupid
| Office-style ribbon they implemented in the new one
| (excessive waste of screen real estate, takes more clicks,
| and the items collapse to uselessness when the window gets
| too small).
| ToDougie wrote:
| I'm blown away at how slow the calculator is. Used to be that
| every time I went to open the calculator app from Run, it
| would freeze my whole system. I have 64G of RAM and a $500
| (at the time) Ryzen chip. I had to perform some arcane
| troubleshooting steps to fix it.
| gspencley wrote:
| But how are you supposed to sync your calculations to One
| Drive and Teams if it's just a simple, non-network-enabled
| calculator program?
| k12sosse wrote:
| Use PowerShell in Azure as your calculator - duh! ;-)
|
| shell.azure.com
| 0cf8612b2e1e wrote:
| I am now incapable of identifying satire.
| benbristow wrote:
| For as basic a program it is, it's rather useful.
|
| My work only currently only give machines with 16GB RAM which
| gets eaten up by Edge/Teams/Outlook, security applications
| incl. Defender and then any dev tools on top of that. Trying to
| campaign for 32GB machines but bureaucracy takes its time in
| the public sector. The IT team have also just removed Paint 3D
| for some reason via InTune.
|
| Just opened Paint right now on my Windows 10 desktop and it's
| using 13MB of RAM for a blank canvas.
|
| For pasting a screenshot and putting some rectangles/arrows on
| it, it works a charm.
|
| Something to be said about Paint!
| vel0city wrote:
| Why do you even bother pasting screenshots? Snipping tool can
| save it without even needing to paste it anywhere.
| Win+Shift+s
| fyloraspit wrote:
| Sometimes you want mouse or dynamic menu in frame for
| highlighting. Most likely reason for print screen + paint
| IMO.
| grishka wrote:
| If you want the old simple Paint, you could just copy
| mspaint.exe from an older version of Windows. Same for things
| like calculator and notepad and games.
| jrflowers wrote:
| Take that, Adobe
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