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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Task manager is one of the few Windows apps that works really well. Glad to see the design making it's way to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That and paint are the two things I miss moving from Windows

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Paint is especially surprising to miss, but yeah. I tried a few different image editing programs on Linux but they were all either too limited in scope or were too complex to quickly learn.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Try Pinta! It's pretty nice and minimal!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've just been using libre office draw but if anyone has a better alternative I'd love to hear it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What about KolourPaint?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I've just been slowly learning GIMP but nothing comes close to paint

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No but it looks like more of a digital painting tool than basic image editing which is all I used paint for anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's far more than basic image editing, but it's also far more akin to Photoshop than GIMP is imo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

ps, top, and kill along with GIMP aren't good enough?

I do like the pretty charts though so I can see how close my GPU is to melting.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

GIMP is great but sometimes you don’t need a woodworking shop, you need a butter knife.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

GIMP is way too complicated for what MS Paint gets used for, I'd easily argue it's harder to use than Photoshop.

Paint Dot Net is a happy medium but that's also Windows only IIRC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it better consider how you have to ctrl alt del

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean Ctrl+Shift+Esc? I don't see a problem with this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i had no idea you can do that in linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was talking about Windows... Linux DEs typically allow you to customize keybinds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

it works on mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The developer wrote a bit about its history

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, except that in Windows 11 they messed it up completely by making it laggy and adding the functionality to randomly crash itself.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Have you used Windows 10?