.NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10 • Hacker News Board

creshal wrote: post #7

aargh_aargh wrote: post #5

Can I have Paint.NET on Linux yet?

Depends on the GUI framework it uses. GDI actually exists for Linux (at least for Mono), but it's not really something you want to use in production. Windows Forms doesn't exist (yet). IIRC that's what paint.net uses, so you're out of luck. Third party toolkits like GTK#, wx.NET or QtSharp will work on both OSes.

I remember that ages ago the Mono team used Paint.NET as a testbed for how complete and usable their System.Windows.Forms and System.Windows.Drawing implementation was. But back then Paint.NET was still open source. By now the source code isn't available anymore and it has grown a lot of things that are implemented in native code for performance (set operations on selection regions) or talking to things that have no equivalent in .NET (DirectWrite). It also uses WPF for a few things, so isn't completely Windows Forms anymore either. As it currently stands, Paint.NET is very much a Windows program, despite being written mostly in C#.

Re: .NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10

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Post by jdking » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:46 AM UTC

Looks like a sensible option for .Net Core development. VSCode and the command line tooling look to be pretty decent. I would really miss LINQPad though.

Re: .NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10

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Post by UK-AL » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:48 AM UTC

romanovcode wrote: post #11

UK-AL wrote: post #9

I tried this for a months, but eventually moved back.

Was it because .NET was causing problems for you on Linux or because of lack of Visual Studio?

Because the vast majority of the ecosystem isn't .net core ready. So you end quite major libraries not being available.

Re: .NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10

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Post by IshKebab » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:57 AM UTC

> Before I did manage to install a fresh system on my laptop I had to disable UEFI, create valid partitions with special flags etc. it took me a while to figure this out, yet it wasn’t that difficult.

Ha, right here is why "the year of the Linux desktop" will never happen. It's basically a kit car. Some people may find it "not that difficult" to weld a chassis together and rebuild an engine, but it's never going to be mainstream.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:57 AM UTC

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Re: .NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10

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Post by jug » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 9:58 AM UTC

Jdam wrote: post #12

aargh_aargh wrote: post #5

Can I have Paint.NET on Linux yet?

This. Paint.NET is what I'm missing on my Mac so much.

I know it's not free, but I think the $30 for Pixelmator is so worth it on Mac. I miss that one now on Windows. :)

Re: .NET on Linux – bye, Windows 10

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Post by creshal » Mon, Oct 17, 2016, 10:02 AM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #17

> Before I did manage to install a fresh system on my laptop I had to disable UEFI, create valid partitions with special flags etc. it took me a while to figure this out, yet it wasn’t that difficult. Ha, right here is why "the year of the Linux desktop" will never happen. It's basically a kit car. Some people may find it "not that difficult" to weld a chassis together and rebuild an engine, but it's never going to b…

I wonder what he fucked up to make this necessary. Modern Linux distributions work fine with UEFI and create the necessary EFI System Partition itself.