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by insickness 1366 days ago
Microsoft Paint. Yes, photoshop can do 10,000 more things, but sometimes you want quick and dirty and it has all the basics you need.
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I wish Mac and Linux had some equivalent to MS Paint. It seems like such a pain just to try to draw crop screnshots and draw circles sometimes.
Check out Shotr (https://shotr.cc) for mac and flameshot (https://flameshot.org/) for Linux! These apps are totally indispensable in my day-to-day and it sounds like it’ll solve your problem.
I love you. And the person who made Shottr.
There is a web version https://jspaint.app
Kolourpaint is exactly that for Linux. It's a classical MS Paint clone, and it can take screenshots and crop. Is Qt based but works just as well in other window managers than KDE
Mac has preview.
And some of the Preview features for editing/annotating images and pdfs are now included in Quick Look.
i use mtpaint, which is fantastically old/ugly/tiny and perfect for small jobs
I advise you to try Paint.NET, it’s a free and modern reincarnation of Paint Shop Pro, which was a true killer.