> If you remove the app, you can reinstall it from the Microsoft Store until November 4, 2024. After that date, Paint 3D will no longer be available for download
I hate the changes to the regular Paint app. They added stuff like layers and now it is really hard to do simple things like cut and paste and move parts of the image around because now you get a transparent hole in the image. I used to use it a lot to touch up or fix things in images of Excel graphs for slides, etc.
I work in a medical practice as a receptionist/guy-who-knows-IT-stuff and the system is locked down pretty hard by the sysadmin (for good reasons).
Sometimes I need to crop a photo, or a how-to screenshot for our wiki, or circle something in red on a screenshot etc. MS Paint is what we got, and it works fine for small jobs like that.
I'd be sad to see it go for that reason.
I have a sneakernet connection to a isolated linux box with GIMP and Inkscape on it, but MS Paint often fulfills 95% of requirements with less overhead.
I don't know of anyone who uses VS Code without extensions, and some of those produced by Microsoft are closed source. Can you really do meaningful Python work in VS Code without the Python extension, for example?
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 38.2 ms ] thread> If you remove the app, you can reinstall it from the Microsoft Store until November 4, 2024. After that date, Paint 3D will no longer be available for download
It would be a shame to lose it, I'm sure some people use it.
I work in a medical practice as a receptionist/guy-who-knows-IT-stuff and the system is locked down pretty hard by the sysadmin (for good reasons).
Sometimes I need to crop a photo, or a how-to screenshot for our wiki, or circle something in red on a screenshot etc. MS Paint is what we got, and it works fine for small jobs like that.
I'd be sad to see it go for that reason.
I have a sneakernet connection to a isolated linux box with GIMP and Inkscape on it, but MS Paint often fulfills 95% of requirements with less overhead.
It looks like you’re using regular MS Paint which will almost certainly be around till the end of Windows.
But don’t feel too bad. Creating confusing product names is the things Microsoft has always been the best at.
Krita and Gimp are nice, so is Inkscape. Pinta on linux desktop for the MSPaint but better experience.
Things like Adobe Photoshop charge monthly subscription fees then charge you to CANCEL your subscription.
Weighing it out, Windows is spyware. Funny it advises people to switch back to 'Paint' - Thanks, ol reliable since '98?
https://github.com/microsoft
They are also one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel.
I don't know of anyone who uses VS Code without extensions, and some of those produced by Microsoft are closed source. Can you really do meaningful Python work in VS Code without the Python extension, for example?