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Anonymous10/10/25, 19:20No.7753809
Windows is going to shit but I use Paint for most of my digital art.
Is there a linux Paint clone with all the same tools?
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Anon10/10/25, 19:22No.7753813
Why is windows going to shit?
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Anon10/10/25, 19:29No.7753820
unfortunately krita is the only viable shit on Linux
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Anon10/10/25, 19:35No.7753824
there is an MS paint app on IOS
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Anon10/10/25, 19:51No.7753844
Windows is not going anywhere, just be careful of what sites you go into and youre going to be fine. Common sense is the best antivirus there is.
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Anon10/10/25, 22:20No.7753991
I'll assume you mean the version of paint in windows 7 to windows 10.
Ultimately there are many programs that can do what paint does, but none of them will feel quite like paint.Running the windows 7 version of paint is technically possible but too much of a pain in the ass to be considered https://blog.quincetart10.is-a.dev/2024/04/25/mspaint-wine.html
Both win xp paint and GraphicsGale feel like paint, are easy to install, and run mostly fine in Wine. The main issue I've encountered is that the color selector doesn't display the crosshair.
Win xp paint can be installed in a wine prefix with just 'winetricks mspaint'.
You can also use the web version but it's laggy when zooming https://jspaint.app/
GraphicsGale can be setup by popping the installer into Lutris.
Krita of course works great and you can make brushes similar to mspaint. However it's a fully featured drawing program and thus feels very different to paint.
Tegaki is also another great alternative that anyone who's used /i/ knows of. https://desuwa.github.io/tegaki.html
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Anon10/10/25, 22:37No.7754014
if you want a clone https://jspaint.app
works on any os that can run ff/chrome
if you want a chill no frills drawing program check out mypaint
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Anon10/10/25, 23:44No.7754072
Just pirate the fucking Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC.
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Anon10/10/25, 23:49No.7754078
Try KolourPaint
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Anon10/11/25, 00:36No.7754122
There are multiple drawing apps on iOS.
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Anon10/11/25, 04:33No.7754237
KRITA works well on linux and windows. it isn't set up as a pixel art program, but it has pixel art brushes you can use (a circle, a dot, and a dithering net). once you get use to the interface (which you'll only ever use 10% of), the layer system makes pixel art SOOOO much easier than mspaint. don't let the awful UI scare you off, it's not blender, not even GIMP in terms of complexity.
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Anon10/11/25, 04:36No.7754242
None. The rest are either crappy browser slop or non beginner friendly like krita
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Anon10/11/25, 04:51No.7754259
Buy a shitty laptop, put cracked WinXP on it, and never connect it to the internet. $100 problem solved.You're never going to find an actual Linux alternative to anything because FOSS devs are incapable of grasping design standards.
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Anon10/11/25, 14:32No.7754560
>OMG don't connect to the interwebs on an old OS
>NOOOO you have to upgrade before Win10 support ends!!!
>you will get a Viruz if you don't AAAAH
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Anon10/11/25, 22:32No.7754899
Yeah but it's going to be way more annoying
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Anon10/15/25, 12:13No.7759138
>Pirate a version of Photoshop from 2014 from some Russian torrent site
>Install no problem.
>Runs great.
>No adobe bridge
>No adobe bloatware shit
>No stupid online font library I never use
>No stupid online content library I never use
>Just the way Photoshop used to be
>Still have all the tools I need like content aware fill (it was a new aspect of Photoshop in this era but it still works great).
>Put a firewall rule around it to ensure it's never allowed to connect to the Internet ever
>No reminders to update
>No options save files to cloud
>Happy
>Moisturized
>Flourishing
I cannot recommend doing this enough. Modern digital painting software is pure fucking shit
