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Inking/line art does not work well at all with GIMP. Does anyone know of a program that does not require the use of a tablet that'd work well for me?

And incidentally, does anyone know of a good anti-virus program that's easy for the computer-illiterate to manage and works on Linux?

play with the brush settings in the gimp, there are a tone of things you can configure, and if you don't have one get a usb mouse, trying to do anything with the touch pad can be tricky.

I can look and see if there are other stuff in the repos if you like.


ok I messed around in the gimp a little.
when you select the brush you get a bunch of options for the tool below the toolbox, you can set the size you want and a bunch of other things, over on the right part of the screen you can select tool presets and it looks to me like basic round detail would be good for inking, try it out and let me know.

For antivirus, have a look here, in the Linux section. Select the one that you like the most (or one at random with a lot of green), and you should find it in your software manager.

There is a program called inkscape that might work, but I've never tried it.

I've heard Inkscape was very good, but it's vector based so I don't know what that would mean for what your trying to use it for, LBF.

Inkscape is almost done downloading~!

Ohgreat, now I have to wait for it to install.

Ohnowait, it's done. I just have to restart the computer...

You shouldn't have to restart Linux to install a program. That sounds like a carryover from the windows installer. Linux has no fraggin registry that has it's hands in everything. Worst case you *might* have to log out and log back in again to refresh your shell variables.

"Tetsuwan Penguin" wrote:You shouldn't have to restart Linux to install a program. That sounds like a carryover from the windows installer. Linux has no fraggin registry that has it's hands in everything. Worst case you *might* have to log out and log back in again to refresh your shell variables.

... I don't know what any of that stuff is.

I'm just going by what the notifications told me.

Now, then, to try this puppeh OUT~!

if your computer told you had to restart then it must have installed some updates in the background that required it, like the kernel or some other low level thing that the hole system depends on, just for installing a program or even a driver most of the time it is ready to use when the package manager said it is done installing.

... You lost me again.