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Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by IslandRebel »

thorum wrote: post #82
mortenjorck wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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.

AI haters are basically a very small minority and almost all of them are online. It isn't a large number.

There is plenty of skepticism (with any new technology) sure. People often change their attitude to technology when they can see utility in it.

> Whether or not you agree about AI, when you’re communicating to a wider audience, you have to read the room.

People quite frankly were being arseholes. The AI-haters are as bad as the AI-cultists.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by saghm »

IslandRebel wrote: post #161
thorum wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

AI haters are basically a very small minority and almost all of them are online. It isn't a large number. There is plenty of skepticism (with any new technology) sure. People often change their attitude to technology when they can see utility in it. > Whether or not you agree about AI, when you’re communicating to a wider audience, you have to read the room. People quite frankly were being arseholes. The AI-haters ar…

> Al haters are basically a very small minority and almost all of them are online. It isn't a large number.

Without even getting into the AI part of this claim, how can you have any confidence about a claim like this when there are always going to be several orders of magnitude more people who are online than people you interact with offline? You could replace "AI haters" with "people who live in " and end up with something that's pretty much entirely true in your subjective experience but quite obviously false objectively. How do you tell what's your bubble and what's actually what most people think?

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by ack_complete »

edflsafoiewq wrote: post #125
judah wrote: post #9

The full thread[0] about how it runs on Wine is quite interesting: > Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just "disable" the use of Direct2D. So, instead, Paint.NET now has an internal, from-scratch, clean-room reverse-engineered rewrite of Direct2D that it uses on WINE (triggered by using /wine). It l…

Why is Direct2D so hard to implement in Wine?

Direct2D has some complex algorithms because it was designed for high-quality antialiased rasterization on DX9-class hardware, particularly tesselation, and suitable not only for vector graphics but also text glyphs. This bleeds over into the API, which is quite complex and somewhat annoying at times. It revives the GDI-style interface of needing to create and select a solid brush object instead of just passing a color, and drawing text with colored spans is embarrassingly involved (it involves writing a custom rendering bridge between Direct2D and DirectWrite).

The other problem is that Wine has only implemented a minimal amount of the Direct2D API to get specific programs working that aren't heavy graphics programs. Two major omissions, the last time I looked, were that Wine's implementation does not support antialiasing at all, and its ArcTo() draws a line.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by IslandRebel »

saghm wrote: post #162
IslandRebel wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI haters are basically a very small minority and almost all of them are online. It isn't a large number. There is plenty of skepticism (with any new technology) sure. People often change their attitude to technology when they can see utility in it. > Whether or not you agree about AI, when you’re communicating to a wider audience, you have to read the room. People quite frankly were being arseholes. The AI-haters ar…

> Al haters are basically a very small minority and almost all of them are online. It isn't a large number. Without even getting into the AI part of this claim, how can you have any confidence about a claim like this when there are always going to be several orders of magnitude more people who are online than people you interact with offline? You could replace "AI haters" with "people who live in " and end up with so…

Because the most vocal people are always a minority and I can use my own good judgement.

I am also not in any "bubble" group and I am one of those people that are very suspicious of cliques.

I spent as much time talking to people that are neutral, positive and negative on AI.

Most of the AI haters IME of interacting with them irrational and are full of very poor arguments for their position. Almost all of it is emotional and/or out of ignorance. I've seen the exact same arguments made on US and UK based websites.

A lot of AI-skepticism I've encountered IRL/more-normie space comes from fears of what their children will do for work and the large data centre projects being approved by government without enough consultation of local residents. I think these are both valid concerns.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by saghm »

vova_hn2 wrote: post #66
haunter wrote: post #20

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>The source got deleted, what is the backlash even about? It's Bluesky, they hate AI so the mob bullied him to delete the posts https://web.archive.org/web/20260901203707/https://bsky.app/... >Paint .NET-on-WINE has never been possible because of Direct2D, which WINE has really struggled with (for good reasons). >So like ... why not reimplement Direct2D-in-Paint .NET? Remove the dependency on WINE completely. Clean r…

> the mob bullied him to delete the posts Why not just ignore them? Most of them are probably not Paint.net users anyway. Why listening to some randos most of who wouldn't be using your software anyway.

For a lot of humans, having a large number of people criticize you heavily has an emotional toll independent of the technical merits of their claims

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by saghm »

pseudosavant wrote: post #102
tech234a wrote: post #13

Apparently the author got a surprising amount of backlash on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rickbrew.bsky.social/post/3muiv4phe...

The backlash is so completely unwarranted. This is a piece of free software where the creator is making it easier to use on free software platforms. If you don't want PDN on Linux because you hate AI no matter what, then don't use it. Don't rage attack the creator so that others can't use PDN. Thanks Rick Brewster! I love PDN. It isn't as capable as Photoshop, but it isn't a rental, and it does 99% of what I need it…

At the risk of opening up the usual can of worms, I feel like the terminology "free software platform" is not something I've seen used in the sense that you're describing paint.net as "free". I genuinely got confused the first time I read your comment because referring to Linux as "free software platforms" made me assume that you meant the other type of free, which paint.net is not.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by saghm »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #124
vova_hn2 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The biggest problem was that, even though these were clearly unethical and deplorable actions, the MIT License permitted all of it. Seriously? Why not go GPL then?

Because that is even worse for what he wants to allow.

Which is what, exactly? As far as I can tell, it seems more about what he wants to not allow. At the end of the day I respect an author's choice whether to close source to something even if I disagree with it, but it feels a little euphemistic to describe that as "allowing" something.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by slazaro »

xnx wrote: post #37

I didn't realize Paint.net was closed-source now. What's the best alternative, Pinta?

Krita is what I use. Pinta just had a lot of broken UX and it didn't behave the way I expected. Krita is closer to Photoshop, but having extra features is not a problem. I'm pretty sure anything you'd do in paint.net you can do in Krita.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by slazaro »

orbital-decay wrote: post #52
vunderba wrote: post #30

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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

Very different software. Paint.NET is mostly a composition/annotation tool oriented towards simplicity and speed, Krita revolves around digital painting.

I never did any digital painting in Krita, I use it only for basic image editing and it can do all I wanted to do with Paint.net. Should I care that an app can do more than what I use it for, if it stays out of the way?

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by orbital-decay »

slazaro wrote: post #169
orbital-decay wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very different software. Paint.NET is mostly a composition/annotation tool oriented towards simplicity and speed, Krita revolves around digital painting.

I never did any digital painting in Krita, I use it only for basic image editing and it can do all I wanted to do with Paint.net. Should I care that an app can do more than what I use it for, if it stays out of the way?

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