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I know MS Paint is seen as a joke but what is the Linux program with equivalent functionality that actually works? Recently I wanted to copy image from Firefox
by dmz73 5y ago
I know MS Paint is seen as a joke but what is the Linux program with equivalent functionality that actually works? Recently I wanted to copy image from Firefox and paste it into a program to crop and add some text. Ubuntu did not have a program installed that would let me do that. I tried few different programs available in the repository and none of them worked well enough to perform this task. Even GIMP was not usable because the icons and text would not scale up enough to be visible by human eye on 4k 15" laptop screen. In the end I had to reboot into Windows and use MS Paint which had this done in a flash. So, what is the Linux Paint that actually works like MS Paint?
- primaryobjects 5y agoA great web-based version is https://www.photopea.com https://www.photopea.com
- quickthrower2 5y agoThat’s a web based version of photoshop!
- brian_herman 5y agohttps://jspaint.app https://jspaint.app
- olivierestsage 5y agoYour point is well made, but for anyone wondering about this, I've found Krita[1] to be better than the GIMP for everyday use like this. [1] https://krita.org/en/ https://krita.org/en/
- Pompidou 5y agoOkay but mspaint is starting so fast and consume so little memory.
- UbrtrbNchDneRle 5y agoImageMagick. Even has a command line interface! On a serious note, I don’t have any problems with GIMP, 2.10 is supposed to have hiDPI support. Have you tried Krita and MyPaint?
- fuball63 5y agoThe one I always use is Kolourpaint. Installable via apt.
- quickthrower2 5y agoI use mspaint seriously for mock-ups. Because you can’t do too much you dont waste time on perfectionism you can just do enough to communicate a design. It’s a brain hack. Lack of features (and vectors) is a feature!
- majkinetor 5y agopaint.net is tone better and has nice OTB shortcuts.
- gotski 5y ago100% agree. I used to use pencil and paper (and still do if I'm in person), but for a quick and dirty sketch to communicate ideas over screen share, MSPaint hits the sweet spot between speed and flexibility
- quickthrower2 5y agoYes. Pencil and paper is better for a new ui design. Paint comes into its own when you already am have the app and desire to change the interface, or say create a new dialog box similar to an existing one.
- grahamburger 5y agoYou could probably get pretty far with LibreOffice Impress. I usually use Google Drive for this kind of stuff (specifically the Drawing app.)
- Asooka 5y agoI use kolourpaint for that. If you don't want the Qt dependencies, also try mypaint, I used it in the past and it works well too.
- sedatk 5y agoWindows XP version of MS Paint seems to go great with Wine: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=373 https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
- commoner 5y agoKolourPaint is the closest equivalent to Paint, and supports HiDPI display scaling: http://kolourpaint.org http://kolourpaint.org For a little more functionality (but still less complexity than GIMP or Krita), Pinta has a tabbed interface based on Paint.NET. It supports layers, but does not yet support HiDPI: https://www.pinta-project.com https://www.pinta-project.com GIMP's current version (based on GTK+ 2) only has basic support for HiDPI, but their development version (based on GTK+ 3) has full support. I've found it to be quite stable: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/ https://www.gimp.org/downloads/devel/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/ https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/05/08/gimp-2-99-6-released/ Krita supports HiDPI, and has a different feature set compared to GIMP: https://krita.org https://krita.org
- ajdude 5y agoSeconding (or third-fourthing?) kolourpaint. Not just the scaling, but I love that it supports true png transparency as just like if it were another color.
- ant6n 5y agoPinta (Its like MS Paint on Linux but with layers.)
- Macha 5y agoPinta is like paint.net on Linux but way less polished (it's image editor core started as a port of Paint.net 3.0's when paint.net was still open source, but it's UI was a clone in GTK). I remember being particularly unimpressed when I tried using it for low res image manipulation and discovered the selection "marching ants" and resize handles were rendered at the canvas resolution, for example. At least for me, Krita has ended up as my paint.net replacement, but it is a step up in complexity from paint.net (and hence two steps up from paint)
- ant6n 5y agoFor me, MS Paint is really good at pixel art. Pinta seems to be good at it as well. At first glance, Krita looks like more of a painting software, kind of closer to Photoshop than to Paint.
- JBal 5y agoDibuja "Simple to use paint program like Paintbrush for Mac or classic MS Paint, but for Linux" https://launchpad.net/dibuja https://launchpad.net/dibuja