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Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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This feels like a distinction without a difference. Would you say a Python script/Java utility doesn't "run on Linux" because you need Python/Java installed?

Programs running under wine don't have the same level of system/desktop integration as native programs, it's a very important distinction.

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Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Oh god YES! I paid for paint.net on Windows because it's the only software I find reasonably simple AND reasonably advanced, covering all my usage.

The lack of a linux version was a huge disappointment, especially since most of my computers are switching to windows (I have 2 more on windows and was evaluating moving one of the two over!)

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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I'd say overall bluesky is better but boy howdy is it differently stupid sometimes.

Bluesky is pretty decent and has features that I like over X, but much of its user base are from the Great Xodus (pardon the pun): people who frame their switch to Bluesky as some kind of boycott of X, ie, a bunch of moralists. They didn't leave X because it's a hellscape of trashing and toxicity, no, they left because the politics changed. And so Bluesky is now saturated with people who are very opinionated, very lo…

Yes, bluesky is absolutely saturated with people who are loud and opinionated and willing to engage in trashing.

Entirely different than twitter, in that respect.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Bluesky is pretty decent and has features that I like over X, but much of its user base are from the Great Xodus (pardon the pun): people who frame their switch to Bluesky as some kind of boycott of X, ie, a bunch of moralists. They didn't leave X because it's a hellscape of trashing and toxicity, no, they left because the politics changed. And so Bluesky is now saturated with people who are very opinionated, very lo…

Yes, bluesky is absolutely saturated with people who are loud and opinionated and willing to engage in trashing. Entirely different than twitter, in that respect.

Nah, Twitter is still absolutely rotten with toxicity. The Great Xodus happened due to the rapid chuddification of Twitter under its new management: it was over politics, not toxicity. As such they brought the toxicity with them like a plague.

Bluesky has this nice feature where you can mute lists, so someone made a MAGA list (https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s), and yet I was still seeing MAGA stuff on my feed because all the Twitter refugees were screenshotting Twitter nonsense and laundering it into my feed. Utterly ridiculous.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Bluesky is a biker bar with an askew "safe space" sign awkwardly taped to the door.

Do not blame the bikers, they usually are very friendly people. :-)

Sure - they even unselfishly share all their noises with as much people as possible. As much as the engine can produce (i.e. better be a rich biker, then you can make your engine share a lot more or it).

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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There’s nothing surprising or confusing here. Outside of tech communities like HN, I see anti-AI rhetoric everywhere. A very large number of humans see AI as a purely evil and parasitic thing, no matter how it’s used. It’s an especially common view among artists and young people. Whether or not you agree about AI, when you’re communicating to a wider audience, you have to read the room.

It's BlueSky lol. If your way to 'read the room' is to read BlueSky replies then you're already in a pretty doomed position.

If you ever tell you use AI on BlueSky, they will put your account on a list to be "shadowbanned" basically.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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I guess more digital art options on Linux are always good, but that aside, is there even a good reason to use it when something like Krita exists? It's always worked flawlessly on my linux machine (Mint). https://github.com/kde/krita

I'd reverse the question and ask is there any reason to continue developing in .NET and windows-only languages when windows allows for WSL apps.

Paint.NET has a *lot* of legacy code that cannot just be discarded. The dev said as much in their original post.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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It looks like the original post was removed, but there are some screenshots going around (unfortunately X doesn't let you view full-size unless you're logged in): https://x.com/ChrisCroy/status/2094867317163540937

You can use a nitter instance: https://x.n0g.xyz/ChrisCroy/status/2094867317163540937

Wow, I thought they all shut down after elon's CnD

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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It looks like the original post was removed, but there are some screenshots going around (unfortunately X doesn't let you view full-size unless you're logged in): https://x.com/ChrisCroy/status/2094867317163540937

Those responses are disgusting. I bet you every one of these individuals criticised X for being toxic.

X and bluesky can both be toxic

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Yes, bluesky is absolutely saturated with people who are loud and opinionated and willing to engage in trashing. Entirely different than twitter, in that respect.

Nah, Twitter is still absolutely rotten with toxicity. The Great Xodus happened due to the rapid chuddification of Twitter under its new management: it was over politics, not toxicity. As such they brought the toxicity with them like a plague. Bluesky has this nice feature where you can mute lists, so someone made a MAGA list ( https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s ), and yet I was still seeing M…

Lol no X was and is toxic af
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