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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
by nashashmi 14d ago
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.
- gguingff 14d agoDon't forget that it actively spies on the user! Say no to telemetry.
- vunderba 14d agoI 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 https://github.com/kde/krita
- nashashmi 14d agoI'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.
- encrypted_bird 14d agoPaint.NET has a *lot* of legacy code that cannot just be discarded. The dev said as much in their original post.
- timanderson 14d ago.NET is not a windows-only language. Actually .NET is not a language, C# is a language. I am currently working on a .NET GUI application for macOS.
- orbital-decay 14d agoVery different software. Paint.NET is mostly a composition/annotation tool oriented towards simplicity and speed, Krita revolves around digital painting.
- slazaro 14d agoI 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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- louthy 14d agoI use Krita, but I miss Paint.NET It’s lighter, simpler, and faster with a much more intuitive UX. for basic image manipulation tasks it’s awesome. For creation of art I’d use Krita, it is more feature complete. But if Paint.NET appeared on Linux, I’d use it in a heartbeat. Paint.NET is closer to Gimp, but usable.
- vunderba 14d agoI can see that. I wish Pixelmator (before it got bought up by Apple) had been ported over to Linux. That's been the closest lightweight super-intuitive alternative to Paint.net I've ever messed around with.
- colkassad 14d agoPaint.net is my go-to image editing software. I'm not a digital artist or professional photographer, I just need to downsize/crop/adjust the occasional image. I don't need the kitchen sink. Regular MS Paint is annoyingly basic and Krita, GIMP, et al., are too much UI-wise. That said, I use Linux daily but not for images so not sure if there is a Paint.net analog on Linux already.
- vunderba 14d agoBack when I was still on Windows(XP days), I made heavy use of Paint.net. Given Microsoft’s penchant for gobbling up smaller companies, I was always a bit surprised that they never bought the company and integrated paint.net as the built-in OS replacement for the original MS Paint.
- Readerium 14d agoWashington State University not University of Washington