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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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Post by nashashmi »

vunderba wrote: post #30
nashashmi wrote: post #7

Paint.net used to be an open source collaboration project by Rick Brewster, a Microsoft Employee and the students at the University of Washington. Today it is a private closed source project accepting donations, and still headed by Rick Brewster.

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.

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by mortenjorck »

tech234a wrote: post #13

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

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

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by [deleted] »

mortenjorck wrote: post #33
tech234a wrote: post #13

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

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

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Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by nottorp »

nashashmi wrote: post #25
haunter wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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…

I wonder if we will ever get AI-optimized language sets, ie code instructions given specifically to AI agents to develop code for a JIT interpreter. This gives the same results each and every time the instruction to AI is given no matter the version of LLM used.

I believe you want compilers?

Re: Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

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Post by gertop »

charcircuit wrote: post #34
JamesCoyne wrote: post #15

Unlikely to see wide distribution on Linux given the license

The license allows redistribution so I don't think it would be prohibitive to it being distributed.

Paint.net itself is still not open-source, so no distro will distribute it.

If this shin even becomes "good enough" then I'm sure it will appear in the AUR and flathhub, however.

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