Tux Paint is recommended for children aged 3 to 12, educators looking for interactive teaching tools, and parents seeking to support their children's artistic development in a digital environment.
Tux Paint might be a bit more popular than Drawing. We know about 13 links to it since March 2021 and only 11 links to Drawing. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Recently I went looking for a (slightly more featureful) mspaint.exe replacement for linux and found https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/ to be serviceable. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
There is also Drawing, but I think it has no options to set compression parameters for e.g. jpeg. Source: over 2 years ago
Drawing fits that description, but it isn't really comparable to Krita โ the authors describe it as like MS Paint but for Gnome. Pinta seems similar, but more Xfce-ish. => https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/ => https://www.pinta-project.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
I like Drawing for basic stuff resizing, cropping, rotating etc... Krita for more complex stuff. Source: almost 3 years ago
Mint Mate has Drawing as default. Simple image editor for Linux https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/. Source: almost 3 years ago
Https://tuxpaint.org TuxPaint is an app that is very similar from 2002 onwards to current. I have been installing on many computers for small children since. Stamps and noises are the most loved features. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
PBS Kids has a lot of games and activities on their website: https://pbskids.org/games If your kids watch any PBS shows them they'll recognize the characters. The activities were fun enough for our twins to learn how to use computer mice at age 3. Tux Paint is also really fun for young kids and a good way to learn mouse usage: https://tuxpaint.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Tux Paint (version 0.9.30): A drawing program for children. Source: over 2 years ago
I can also recommend https://tuxpaint.org/. I see they also have an app for Android nowadays, but no iOS it seems. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
This is going to depend on the age of the kid. I have given a cheap Laptop to my 6-year old and introduced her to Scratch[1] and Tuxpaint[2]. I let her use the mouse and keyboard more instead of tapping on a screen. The school is likely to introduce Scratch from next year. For older kids, they should be on a normal computer. My old MacBook Pro came handy for the elder one. She does the usual Python, games and... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
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