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  • Unlikely to see wide distribution on Linux given the license
    by JamesCoyne
  • This is via Wine, so presumably it should also run on Macs now.

    Paint.net is the only thing I miss from my days on Windows machines, so super excited about this!

    by yodon
  • 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.
    by nashashmi
  • I know nothing about writing an image editor or graphics programming but maybe someone here can fill me in - would it be more or less difficult ("would it take more or less tokens" is probably the right question to ask these days) to replace the Windows-specific APIs with cross-platform alternatives (I guess Skia instead of Direct2D and something like Avalonia or Uno instead of Win32-based UI?) instead of re-implementing Direct2D?
    by tkot
  • Here is the source code of the last open source (MIT) release from 2008

    Wonder if it can be built for modern Linux

    https://web.archive.org/web/20080000000000*/http://www.dotpd...

    by haunter
  • Apparently the author got a surprising amount of backlash on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rickbrew.bsky.social/post/3muiv4phe...
    by tech234a
  • I didn't realize Paint.net was closed-source now. What's the best alternative, Pinta?
    by xnx
  • I see they finally got the domain name paint.net. They used to be at getpaint.net, and the paint company that owned paint.net had a link saying something like 'if you are looking for the graphics software, go to getpaint.net'.
    by joshuaissac

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