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Free alternatives to MS Paint and WMP
Calum:
using an ancient version of mediocre player's hardly helping, since it won't play the more recent types of wmv files, and you will have to hunt down codecs for a lot of things yourself, and photoshop is hardly a paint replacement, as it is firstly huge, and secondly, expensive. if huge is not a problem, gimp should more than suit your needs as a paint replacement. it's also more paint-like than photoshop.
Aloone_Jonez:
Well I still have MS media player and I've not bothered upgrading to anything because I don't use it much anyway.
As far as the gimp is concerned I've tried it and I didn't like it. For one I've never got it to install properly under Windows and I've used it under Linux and it's not very user friendly it's seems to have lots of advance features but I couldn't even figure out how to draw a line or circle - It takes ages to load too.
I think I'm just going to stick with MS Paint here (unless anyone suggests differant) as I don't need all those features and it's easier to use to. I used to have Paint shop pro (3.0 I think) I tried a new version and I hated it, it had more features but the interface was more cluttered and harder to use. MS Paint is hardly critical to MS' monopoly so I don't care anyway.
Calum:
i was going to suggest kpaint and some other linux drawing programs, which are probably a lot more like what you are after, but since you don't care, you're probably just going to keep using windows rather than linux.
and try as you might, you'll never convince me that mswindows is not a cornerstone of microsoft's empire...
Aloone_Jonez:
--- Quote from: Calum ---i was going to suggest kpaint and some other linux drawing programs, which are probably a lot more like what you are after, but since you don't care, you're probably just going to keep using windows rather than linux.
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Well I would really like to use Linux but I'll probably never use it full time, there again we've already had this discussion: http://www.microsuck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8833
--- Quote from: Calum ---and try as you might, you'll never convince me that mswindows is not a cornerstone of microsoft's empire...
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I didn't say that, I said:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---MS Paint is hardly critical to MS' monopoly so I don't care anyway.
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skyman8081:
Jasc is turning into Adobe anyway.
and Calum, did you actualy LOOK at the link I provided, even mouserover it. Media Player Classic is a completely different application than Windows Media Player.
Media Player Classic is an OPEN SOURCE app, that merely LOOKS like Media Player 6.4. It will play anything you throw at it, there are sites that offer standalone versions of JUST the codecs for a particular format (realmedia in particular). If you already have quicktime or MP9 installed, it will use their codecs, without actually running the apps themselves.
Very handy app.
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