MS Paint

“An instance of Paint with a rectangular selection would eat 5% of the GPU continuously in the background.”

“it's so pixel focused, and who hasn't liked a lot of the changes that have been made”

“Interesting how they have kept MS-Paint as simple as Notepad for three decades”

“Show some mercy. The team that supports the poor thing has their OKRs too.”

“there really is no excuse for paint to lack functionality found in ImageMagick 30 years ago”

“they can now vibecode all the missing features into MS Paint without having to dig into the legacy codebase themselves”

“it was good for a long time, until they added layers”

“Paint works great for that.”

“it's bad and we can all say "fuck Microsoft" once more”

“It's not a godsend if it lacks features, eg. it would be much more useful for editing photographs if it had a clone tool.”

“giving users a false sense of control while the invisible GUID persists regardless”

“Injecting hidden GUIDs into local files without explicit user consent is a massive privacy overreach.”

“if MS Paint is watermarking shit, it's better to just use something else”

“It's for our safety, so when Kathy in the primary school steals Beatrice's picture in paint”

“lightweight software is an absolute fucking godsend”

“Doing so with MSPaint removes the app, so you need to find a clean older version..”

“Then they should've left those things off by default, rather than messing with the expected flow of the application for everyone.”

“Cropping and editing screenshots (eg add red circle) in a very lightweight application.”

“it always kinda felt like a demo that came with early versions of windows that didn't actually do anything useful”

“If you’re actually intended to Paint in MS Paint, as in create things from scratch, you need to limit the upper end of quality for it to be usable.”

“Copy, paste, click button, done in three seconds.”

“some of the regular paint tools like eraser don't erase in a smooth antialiased way”

“adding features that you want to cram down their throats to promote other products that you want them to use”

“Background removal is really useful though, saves a bunch of time.”

“paint shouldn't have any GenAI features (or any new features other than compatibility)”

“it's such a shock to hear that MS Paint isn't just a point and click pixel coloring app anymore”

“The highly privacy-invasive level of provenance tracking which Microsoft has added goes beyond the EU's new mandates.”

“it's worth it just for the UX”

“MS Paint mis categorized a Print Screen screenshot as AI generated when pasted.”

“The fact that local ai image generation uses an online moderation API is a bit worrying too”

“MS Paint wanted to add the "this is AI" tag on a picture they just resized.”

“MS has been very sloppy in their implementations. I would recommend against using Paint”

“they're secretly adding in a unique identifier into every image you create”

“you can generate a meme picture using AI, then paste it into Paint to add some funny text”

“did appreciate the dumb simplicity of parts of it. Especially MS Paint”

“I'm mixed on the enhancements to Paint”

“It complains about registry stuff on launch but other than that it works fine.”

“the destruction of Notepad and Paint for my uses cases is nearly complete”

“anything, MS paint would be fine”

“they're quite solid and have become everyday tools that eliminated the need to reach for some other third party apps”