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There are many Linux programs that imitate the MS Paint of Windows XP and earlier. Is there one yet that looks like that of Windows 7 and has the same features?

screenshot of Windows 7 Paint

Primarily it should look the same as Windows 7 Paint (see the screenshot above), and be easy to use by people who are used to that application. It's all about “not having trouble switching to Linux”. In particular:

  • The way you can resize the image by dragging the bottom right point at the corner.
  • Not to forget its brushes (don't mind if they were a little different), its shapes (must include all shapes), its line thickness resizability and so on.
  • The selection property; where you select an area in the image and then you may copy it, delete it or whatever (very important).
  • It should support a wide range of image formats. I had a problem with that before.
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  • One more question: do the controls have to be a ribbon thingy? It's a distinctive feature of the user interface, but a much-hated one. – Gilles Mar 16 '14 at 19:45
  • firstly thank you so much for taking time to edit my question :D ... yeah; preferably should be a ribbon since this is how it looks. I don't hate the ribbon XD XD thanks again :D @gilles – Mina Michael Mar 16 '14 at 19:50
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    Of all the features in Windows that could be a barrier to people switching to Linux, I never thought MS Paint would be one of them. – Ben Miller Mar 17 '14 at 11:38
  • Then you haven't met me nor my friends :D I used to use paint almost daily! ...makes a big void when switching to Linux but you can't find your simple painting program that you tend to go to whenever you need a simple crop or a simple red circle :D @BenMiller – Mina Michael Mar 17 '14 at 11:41
  • To be clear - you want to restrict it to being as simple as MS Paint? So that gimp.org would not be acceptable because it far exceeds MS Paint? – Mawg Feb 27 '15 at 13:57
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The closest MS Paint clone is Pinta. I regard it as vastly superior to MS Paint, but it retains its simplicity.

All of your needs can be founded easily. Just give it a try.

To install in Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install pinta

enter image description here

For other Linux distro or whatever your OS choose your flavor from here: http://pinta-project.com/download.ashx

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  • Thanks but I know Pinta and I have it installed and I love it but the point is it that looks like that of windows xp. – Mina Michael Mar 17 '14 at 10:48
  • @MinaMichael you can't find the same Interface, but i think the actions in Pinta is much similar to that in windows7 – Maythux Mar 17 '14 at 10:51
  • And that's why I've included "yet" in my question. thank you so far. :D – Mina Michael Mar 17 '14 at 10:58
  • @MinaMichael Then the answer is No One is yet the same :). You are welcome buddy – Maythux Mar 17 '14 at 10:59

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