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They're really pushing the Paint3D app, the Mixed Reality Viewer and the Photos app to take over Paint's roles and beyond. As for Wordpad they probably will deprecate and disable to gently nudge people to online Office 365 cloud subscriptions. Another reason I suppose is to decouple these apps from Windows system so their replacements can be updated through the store instead of waiting for OS feature updates.

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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.

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.

Visual Studio doesn't run in Wine as far as I know.

VSCode is cross platform, what does Visual Studio do that it can't?

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.

Just because I have no reason to run a VM. VS runs fine outside a VM.

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.

VS Code isn't an IDE, as much as people want it to be

> what does Visual Studio do that it can't?

This wasn't argumentative, this was a genuine question - could you shed some light?

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.

If you're a gamer who relies on multiplayer, some anticheats (ie: EAC) makes this an impossibility.

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)

> WIN+R, mspaint, ENTER--every time.

i prefer https://www.getpaint.net/

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.

Send them to Ninite?

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

Or you can buy it on the MS Store to contribute.

or donate directly

“Ctrl+Alt+P” does it for me. Right click a paint shortcut > Properties > Shortcut > type “P” :)

WIN+R, pbrush, ENTER => save yourself one keystroke :)

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.

jspaint.app ftw

Outside of Paint3D I don't think any of those were/are related to the classic mspaint. Mixed reality is new (and not really related to paint) but Photos was clearly there to supplant Windows Photo Viewer.

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