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Paint.NET 4.3 is now available

139 points by WalterSobchak 5y ago

moron4hire 5y ago
I love Paint.NET, but their distribution system is super scummy. I tried to share it with some co-workers and realized you can't just give non-technical people a link to the project site or they are extremely likely to end up downloading some kind of spyware.
- squiffsquiff 5y ago
  From the link it appears to be available in the Microsoft store. If you're on Windows already, is that a problem?
  - executive 5y ago
    Store version is $6.99
    - pseudosavant 5y ago
      Exactly. We can support good software for less than the cost of eating out for lunch.
      - noveltyaccount 5y ago
        Yep and it auto updates from the windows store. This is one of the few free apps I pay for.
    - pjmlp 5y ago
      Which is what I gladly payed for. Developers should be compensated for their work, just like any other professionals.
- siverson914 5y ago
  Use ninite.com!
- Nexxxeh 5y ago
  I don't think I've ever installed it like that. It's on Ninite, as is GIMP and Krita (and Inkscape for Vector).
- antattack 5y ago
  https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases/tag/v4.3 https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases/tag/v4.3
- MauranKilom 5y ago
  Is this still the case? Not going to reiterate my comment upthread here, but I can't reconcile it with what I currently see...
  - detaro 5y ago
    not as bad as described, but still: https://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html https://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html, the linked site to download if not using the Windows Store, has small text "To download, please click the Free Download Now link to the right." at the top, immediately followed by a google ad slot - which at least for me loads an ad with a big blue "DOWNLOAD" button (well, when I turn adblocking and Firefox' inbuild anti-tracking thing off obviously).
    - moron4hire 5y ago
      They've cleaned it up even within the last 6 months. There used to be Play Store ads with big "Install" buttons to the top, right, and maybe even bottom of the actual download.
Zababa 5y ago
I've been getting back to Windows for work lately, and Paint.NET is one of the things that I missed when I was on Linux.
- wayneftw 5y ago
  Pinta is the Linux fork of Paint.NET and it's not quite as good, but good enough for quick edits.
  - pizza234 5y ago
    Crashes for me as well unfortunately, in such a measure that I stopped using it entirely.
  - Zababa 5y ago
    Pinta crashes after doing exactly one operation without fail for me. I appreciate the work done by people on it but my experience with it has been terrible.
    - gtirloni 5y ago
      Here it doesn't crash as often but most times selecting a color doesn't work. And the ocasionay crash, of course.
    - morganvachon 5y ago
      I'm guessing you're running it on Ubuntu or Debian, or a derivative. The packaged .debs are sorely outdated and buggy. If you're on Ubuntu or similar, you can add a ppa[1] for the daily builds which in my experience are much more stable than the old .deb releases. If you're on another distro or OS there may be a current release for you here[2]. Or, if you'd just prefer building from source, you can get it from their github repo[3]. [1] https://launchpad.net/~pinta-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/pinta-daily https://launchpad.net/~pinta-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/pin... [2] https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/ https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/ [3] https://github.com/PintaProject https://github.com/PintaProject
eggy 5y ago
I use Paint.NET for a lot of quick tasks at work, and I have just begun playing with scripting it. It loads quickly, has nicer tools than just MS Paint, and it's getting better each year. I used to play with GIMP and Script-Fu, because I love Scheme and Script-Fu was fun and nicely integrated. The .NET platform is really making a lot of strides this year. Let's see how my C# compares to my Scheme-Fu!
- pjmlp 5y ago
  You could try to have a go at it, https://clojure.org/about/clojureclr https://clojure.org/about/clojureclr
kosasbest 5y ago
For those who yearn for simpler times: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint https://github.com/1j01/jspaint https://jspaint.app/ https://jspaint.app/
- CTOSian 5y ago
  there is mtpaint http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ not too "advanced" btw
manderley 5y ago
Good program, but that website is really hard to read.
smortaz 5y ago
love paint.net. so many advanced features for a “basic” app. but why is rotating still unintuitive? is there a trick that i’ve missed or using the layers menu still the way?
- Jackson__ 5y ago
  You could select the area you want to rotate, then with the move selected pixels tool (m) move your cursor just outside one of the selected corners to rotate with your mouse. Though this will not rotate the base canvas, so it might not be useful in all cases.
jms55 5y ago
My favorite app to make pixel art. Unfortunately last time I tried it, it wouldn't run through Wine. I've never found an alternative on Linux that I liked as much.
JohnTHaller 5y ago
Interestingly, Paint.NET now uses a self-contained .NET 5 packaging. This means on a fully updated Windows 8.1, 10, or 11, it will work out of the box. On Windows 7 SP1, you'll need to manually download and install Platform Update for Windows 7 to get it working. It won't work on Windows 8.0 or earlier than 7 SP1 (7 SP0, Vista, etc).
- qayxc 5y ago
  Not sure I'm a fan of that. That's over 300 MiB down the drain for no apparent reason since even 7 years old systems (e.g. Windows 8.1) can just install the runtime system-wide without issue.
  - sedatk 5y ago
    If you follow the developer on Twitter[1], he's tried every alternative approach and they just didn't work for various reasons. He's been very open about his process. [1] https://twitter.com/rickbrewPDN https://twitter.com/rickbrewPDN
    - qayxc 5y ago
      Interesting stuff. I understand the approach from a deployment perspective (makes it much easier to support multiple platforms), but I still hate the idea of basically having 300+ MiB of duplicated data on my drive. If only WinFS would've worked or NTFS would have built-in de-duplication...
    - atatatat 5y ago
      Can you more specifically link, or hint to which tweet(s) discuss this?
      - sedatk 5y ago
        Here's one: https://twitter.com/rickbrewpdn/status/1425657626520555521?s=21 https://twitter.com/rickbrewpdn/status/1425657626520555521?s...
Shadonototra 5y ago
200mb and 300 DLLs What's up with windows desktop app development? is it really THAT bad? https://i.imgur.com/pkPSq7k.png https://i.imgur.com/pkPSq7k.png
- qayxc 5y ago
  Looks like a deployment issue to me: they basically deployed the entire .NET 5 framework with the app instead of relying on the system installed one.
  - gmemstr 5y ago
    Makes sense, that's the portable version. Would be reasonable to package that all together.
  - Shadonototra 5y ago
    why would one need to install the .net 5 framework only just to paint? is this Java bis? They should statically ship what the program needs, nothing less, nothing more
    - pjmlp 5y ago
      A bit hard, when plugins can use anything from .NET platform.
- sedatk 5y ago
  $ sudo apt install gimp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libnuget-core-cil Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: fonts-droid-fallback fonts-noto-mono fonts-urw-base35 ghostscript gimp-data i965-va-driver intel-media-va-driver libaacs0 libamd2 libaom0 libavcodec58 libavformat58 libavutil56 libbabl-0.1-0 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libcamd2 libccolamd2 libcholmod3 libchromaprint1 libcodec2-0.9 libcolamd2 libde265-0 libexiv2-27 libgegl-0.4-0 libgegl-common libgexiv2-2 libgfortran5 libgimp2.0 libgme0 libgs9 libgs9-common libgsm1 libheif1 libigdgmm11 libijs-0.35 libilmbase24 libjbig2dec0 liblapack3 libmetis5 libmng2 libmypaint-1.5-1 libmypaint-common libopenexr24 libopenmpt0 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler97 libraw19 libsdl2-2.0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libssh-gcrypt-4 libsuitesparseconfig5 libswresample3 libswscale5 libumfpack5 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1 libwebpmux3 libwmf0.2-7 libx264-155 libx265-179 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers ocl-icd-libopencl1 poppler-data va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all Suggested packages: fonts-noto fonts-freefont-otf | fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-texgyre ghostscript-x gimp-help-en | gimp-help gimp-data-extras gvfs-backends i965-va-driver-shaders libbluray-bdj exiv2 libwmf0.2-7-gtk opencl-icd poppler-utils fonts-japanese-mincho | fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-japanese-gothic | fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-nanum libvdpau-va-gl1 nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-304xx-vdpau-driver The following NEW packages will be installed: fonts-droid-fallback fonts-noto-mono fonts-urw-base35 ghostscript gimp gimp-data i965-va-driver intel-media-va-driver libaacs0 libamd2 libaom0 libavcodec58 libavformat58 libavutil56 libbabl-0.1-0 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libcamd2 libccolamd2 libcholmod3 libchromaprint1 libcodec2-0.9 libcolamd2 libde265-0 libexiv2-27 libgegl-0.4-0 libgegl-common libgexiv2-2 libgfortran5 libgimp2.0 libgme0 libgs9 libgs9-common libgsm1 libheif1 libigdgmm11 libijs-0.35 libilmbase24 libjbig2dec0 liblapack3 libmetis5 libmng2 libmypaint-1.5-1 libmypaint-common libopenexr24 libopenmpt0 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler97 libraw19 libsdl2-2.0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libssh-gcrypt-4 libsuitesparseconfig5 libswresample3 libswscale5 libumfpack5 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1 libwebpmux3 libwmf0.2-7 libx264-155 libx265-179 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers ocl-icd-libopencl1 poppler-data va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all 0 upgraded, 76 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 61.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 320 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Freskis 5y ago
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- MauranKilom 5y ago
  I'm failing to find any ads at all on their site. I tried to follow every possible path from getpaint.net to a download and couldn't find a single ad (ublock etc. disabled ofc). Takes more clicks than really necessary, but I don't see any way to download the wrong thing. The only thing "objectionable" (scare quotes intended) is that the version available on the Microsoft store is paid even though the software is freely available. I believe they aren't even allowed to reference the fact that it's free elsewhere on the MS store page. Certainly a weird situation, but not something I'd lose sleep over either tbh. Edit: Oh, and of course certain cites (e.g. chip.de) out-SEO the real site to peddle their own version of it. And, who would have thought, Windows Defender immediately barks that the chip.de version is trojan-riddled...
  - sedatk 5y ago
    I intentionally chose the store version to support the creator, and the convenience of having it on MS Store. Paint.NET is well-worth the money.
  - kuroguro 5y ago
    It doesn't seem to be as bad now, but there are definitely ads there. IIRC to download the desktop version you have to click trough 3 pages, and each used to have at least one ad only saying "download now" that looked like a convincing button. _edit_ Example, every page used to look like that for years: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25741-fake-download-links-on-httpgetpaintnet/ https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25741-fake-download-links-...
  - tyingq 5y ago
    The getpaint.net site did USED TO be riddled with ads pretending to be download buttons.
- ziml77 5y ago
  I don't see any misleading links at all. It takes more clicks than it should to actually get to the download, but there was nothing malicious on any of the pages.
0xmarcin 5y ago
Sad, that it is not running on macOS. For the last few years I used Gimp, but I have a feeling that Gimp is getting more and more unintuitive nowadays (if it ever was intuitive). Recently I needed to do some ad-hoc drawings and I found myself using one of these online paint clones. They are not as comfy as desktop apps but they are doing the job good enough. I would really like to see Paint.NET running on macOS. I think MS efforts for making .NET cross platforms are somehow half-assed. They ported just so much to run web apps and REST services, but totally gave up on GUI stuff. Maybe it's their strategy to lock up devs to windows machines, as there are many tools like ILSpy that .NET devs often use. The community answer, the last time I checked, was AvaloniaUI (https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia) which is cross platform port of WPF (at least XAML based). ILSpy is already ported to it (https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy) but it runs poorly on Linux & mac (I have experienced random crashes and other UI problems). I hope the project will do well and within a year or two we will also see a port of Paint.NET to it.
- sedatk 5y ago
  > but totally gave up on GUI stuff. A cross-platform desktop/mobile GUI is coming on .NET 6 with .NET MAUI.
  - edandersen 5y ago
    MAUI won't make .NET 6 launch and has been delayed.
- wildrhythms 5y ago
  I caved in and bought Pixelmator for Mac OS. It's actually nice to have an editor native to Mac OS that isn't cobbled together ancient UI and code a la Adobe Photoshop.
  - vogre 5y ago
    Pixelmator is great, the closest thing to paint.net, an d it closes almost every possible demand of a casual user.
traviswt 5y ago
While historically quite useful, I swapped to Photopea.com and haven’t looked back. It continues to amaze me how well it works and how broad its feature set is.
peanut_worm 5y ago
This is the only program I still miss from Windows after switching to Linux. Pinta and Krita are close but they are both very buggy still.
hansoolo 5y ago
Since it's .NET 5 now, couldn't it maybe work on other OSes too?
CyberShadow 5y ago
Paint.NET is non-free software ... for an extremely petty reason. The reason? Someone new to programming changed the author in the about box and published it on their website. Well, the author sure showed those terrible plagiarizers by making the project non-free. (Meanwhile, it is as easy as ever to modify .NET applications without source access - see e.g. the numerous mods for Unity games.)
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139 points by WalterSobchak 5y ago

I love Paint.NET, but their distribution system is super scummy. I tried to share it with some co-workers and realized you can't just give non-technical people a link to the project site or they are extremely likely to end up downloading some kind of spyware.

squiffsquiff 5y ago
From the link it appears to be available in the Microsoft store. If you're on Windows already, is that a problem?
- executive 5y ago
  Store version is $6.99
  - pseudosavant 5y ago
    Exactly. We can support good software for less than the cost of eating out for lunch.
    - noveltyaccount 5y ago
      Yep and it auto updates from the windows store. This is one of the few free apps I pay for.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Which is what I gladly payed for. Developers should be compensated for their work, just like any other professionals.
siverson914 5y ago
Use ninite.com!
Nexxxeh 5y ago
I don't think I've ever installed it like that. It's on Ninite, as is GIMP and Krita (and Inkscape for Vector).
antattack 5y ago
https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases/tag/v4.3 https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases/tag/v4.3
MauranKilom 5y ago
Is this still the case? Not going to reiterate my comment upthread here, but I can't reconcile it with what I currently see...
- detaro 5y ago
  not as bad as described, but still: https://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html https://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html, the linked site to download if not using the Windows Store, has small text "To download, please click the Free Download Now link to the right." at the top, immediately followed by a google ad slot - which at least for me loads an ad with a big blue "DOWNLOAD" button (well, when I turn adblocking and Firefox' inbuild anti-tracking thing off obviously).
  - moron4hire 5y ago
    They've cleaned it up even within the last 6 months. There used to be Play Store ads with big "Install" buttons to the top, right, and maybe even bottom of the actual download.

Zababa 5y ago

I've been getting back to Windows for work lately, and Paint.NET is one of the things that I missed when I was on Linux.

wayneftw 5y ago
Pinta is the Linux fork of Paint.NET and it's not quite as good, but good enough for quick edits.
- pizza234 5y ago
  Crashes for me as well unfortunately, in such a measure that I stopped using it entirely.
- Zababa 5y ago
  Pinta crashes after doing exactly one operation without fail for me. I appreciate the work done by people on it but my experience with it has been terrible.
  - gtirloni 5y ago
    Here it doesn't crash as often but most times selecting a color doesn't work. And the ocasionay crash, of course.
  - morganvachon 5y ago
    I'm guessing you're running it on Ubuntu or Debian, or a derivative. The packaged .debs are sorely outdated and buggy. If you're on Ubuntu or similar, you can add a ppa[1] for the daily builds which in my experience are much more stable than the old .deb releases. If you're on another distro or OS there may be a current release for you here[2]. Or, if you'd just prefer building from source, you can get it from their github repo[3]. [1] https://launchpad.net/~pinta-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/pinta-daily https://launchpad.net/~pinta-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/pin... [2] https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/ https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/ [3] https://github.com/PintaProject https://github.com/PintaProject

eggy 5y ago

I use Paint.NET for a lot of quick tasks at work, and I have just begun playing with scripting it. It loads quickly, has nicer tools than just MS Paint, and it's getting better each year. I used to play with GIMP and Script-Fu, because I love Scheme and Script-Fu was fun and nicely integrated. The .NET platform is really making a lot of strides this year. Let's see how my C# compares to my Scheme-Fu!

pjmlp 5y ago
You could try to have a go at it, https://clojure.org/about/clojureclr https://clojure.org/about/clojureclr

kosasbest 5y ago

For those who yearn for simpler times: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint https://github.com/1j01/jspaint https://jspaint.app/ https://jspaint.app/

CTOSian 5y ago
there is mtpaint http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ not too "advanced" btw

manderley 5y ago

Good program, but that website is really hard to read.

smortaz 5y ago

love paint.net. so many advanced features for a “basic” app. but why is rotating still unintuitive? is there a trick that i’ve missed or using the layers menu still the way?

Jackson__ 5y ago
You could select the area you want to rotate, then with the move selected pixels tool (m) move your cursor just outside one of the selected corners to rotate with your mouse. Though this will not rotate the base canvas, so it might not be useful in all cases.

jms55 5y ago

My favorite app to make pixel art. Unfortunately last time I tried it, it wouldn't run through Wine. I've never found an alternative on Linux that I liked as much.

JohnTHaller 5y ago

Interestingly, Paint.NET now uses a self-contained .NET 5 packaging. This means on a fully updated Windows 8.1, 10, or 11, it will work out of the box. On Windows 7 SP1, you'll need to manually download and install Platform Update for Windows 7 to get it working. It won't work on Windows 8.0 or earlier than 7 SP1 (7 SP0, Vista, etc).

qayxc 5y ago
Not sure I'm a fan of that. That's over 300 MiB down the drain for no apparent reason since even 7 years old systems (e.g. Windows 8.1) can just install the runtime system-wide without issue.
- sedatk 5y ago
  If you follow the developer on Twitter[1], he's tried every alternative approach and they just didn't work for various reasons. He's been very open about his process. [1] https://twitter.com/rickbrewPDN https://twitter.com/rickbrewPDN
  - qayxc 5y ago
    Interesting stuff. I understand the approach from a deployment perspective (makes it much easier to support multiple platforms), but I still hate the idea of basically having 300+ MiB of duplicated data on my drive. If only WinFS would've worked or NTFS would have built-in de-duplication...
  - atatatat 5y ago
    Can you more specifically link, or hint to which tweet(s) discuss this?
    - sedatk 5y ago
      Here's one: https://twitter.com/rickbrewpdn/status/1425657626520555521?s=21 https://twitter.com/rickbrewpdn/status/1425657626520555521?s...

Shadonototra 5y ago

200mb and 300 DLLs What's up with windows desktop app development? is it really THAT bad? https://i.imgur.com/pkPSq7k.png https://i.imgur.com/pkPSq7k.png

qayxc 5y ago
Looks like a deployment issue to me: they basically deployed the entire .NET 5 framework with the app instead of relying on the system installed one.
- gmemstr 5y ago
  Makes sense, that's the portable version. Would be reasonable to package that all together.
- Shadonototra 5y ago
  why would one need to install the .net 5 framework only just to paint? is this Java bis? They should statically ship what the program needs, nothing less, nothing more
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    A bit hard, when plugins can use anything from .NET platform.
sedatk 5y ago
$ sudo apt install gimp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libnuget-core-cil Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it. The following additional packages will be installed: fonts-droid-fallback fonts-noto-mono fonts-urw-base35 ghostscript gimp-data i965-va-driver intel-media-va-driver libaacs0 libamd2 libaom0 libavcodec58 libavformat58 libavutil56 libbabl-0.1-0 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libcamd2 libccolamd2 libcholmod3 libchromaprint1 libcodec2-0.9 libcolamd2 libde265-0 libexiv2-27 libgegl-0.4-0 libgegl-common libgexiv2-2 libgfortran5 libgimp2.0 libgme0 libgs9 libgs9-common libgsm1 libheif1 libigdgmm11 libijs-0.35 libilmbase24 libjbig2dec0 liblapack3 libmetis5 libmng2 libmypaint-1.5-1 libmypaint-common libopenexr24 libopenmpt0 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler97 libraw19 libsdl2-2.0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libssh-gcrypt-4 libsuitesparseconfig5 libswresample3 libswscale5 libumfpack5 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1 libwebpmux3 libwmf0.2-7 libx264-155 libx265-179 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers ocl-icd-libopencl1 poppler-data va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all Suggested packages: fonts-noto fonts-freefont-otf | fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-texgyre ghostscript-x gimp-help-en | gimp-help gimp-data-extras gvfs-backends i965-va-driver-shaders libbluray-bdj exiv2 libwmf0.2-7-gtk opencl-icd poppler-utils fonts-japanese-mincho | fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-japanese-gothic | fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-nanum libvdpau-va-gl1 nvidia-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver nvidia-legacy-304xx-vdpau-driver The following NEW packages will be installed: fonts-droid-fallback fonts-noto-mono fonts-urw-base35 ghostscript gimp gimp-data i965-va-driver intel-media-va-driver libaacs0 libamd2 libaom0 libavcodec58 libavformat58 libavutil56 libbabl-0.1-0 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libcamd2 libccolamd2 libcholmod3 libchromaprint1 libcodec2-0.9 libcolamd2 libde265-0 libexiv2-27 libgegl-0.4-0 libgegl-common libgexiv2-2 libgfortran5 libgimp2.0 libgme0 libgs9 libgs9-common libgsm1 libheif1 libigdgmm11 libijs-0.35 libilmbase24 libjbig2dec0 liblapack3 libmetis5 libmng2 libmypaint-1.5-1 libmypaint-common libopenexr24 libopenmpt0 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler97 libraw19 libsdl2-2.0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libssh-gcrypt-4 libsuitesparseconfig5 libswresample3 libswscale5 libumfpack5 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1 libwebpmux3 libwmf0.2-7 libx264-155 libx265-179 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers ocl-icd-libopencl1 poppler-data va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all 0 upgraded, 76 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 61.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 320 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Freskis 5y ago

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MauranKilom 5y ago
I'm failing to find any ads at all on their site. I tried to follow every possible path from getpaint.net to a download and couldn't find a single ad (ublock etc. disabled ofc). Takes more clicks than really necessary, but I don't see any way to download the wrong thing. The only thing "objectionable" (scare quotes intended) is that the version available on the Microsoft store is paid even though the software is freely available. I believe they aren't even allowed to reference the fact that it's free elsewhere on the MS store page. Certainly a weird situation, but not something I'd lose sleep over either tbh. Edit: Oh, and of course certain cites (e.g. chip.de) out-SEO the real site to peddle their own version of it. And, who would have thought, Windows Defender immediately barks that the chip.de version is trojan-riddled...
- sedatk 5y ago
  I intentionally chose the store version to support the creator, and the convenience of having it on MS Store. Paint.NET is well-worth the money.
- kuroguro 5y ago
  It doesn't seem to be as bad now, but there are definitely ads there. IIRC to download the desktop version you have to click trough 3 pages, and each used to have at least one ad only saying "download now" that looked like a convincing button. _edit_ Example, every page used to look like that for years: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25741-fake-download-links-on-httpgetpaintnet/ https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25741-fake-download-links-...
- tyingq 5y ago
  The getpaint.net site did USED TO be riddled with ads pretending to be download buttons.
ziml77 5y ago
I don't see any misleading links at all. It takes more clicks than it should to actually get to the download, but there was nothing malicious on any of the pages.

0xmarcin 5y ago

Sad, that it is not running on macOS. For the last few years I used Gimp, but I have a feeling that Gimp is getting more and more unintuitive nowadays (if it ever was intuitive). Recently I needed to do some ad-hoc drawings and I found myself using one of these online paint clones. They are not as comfy as desktop apps but they are doing the job good enough. I would really like to see Paint.NET running on macOS. I think MS efforts for making .NET cross platforms are somehow half-assed. They ported just so much to run web apps and REST services, but totally gave up on GUI stuff. Maybe it's their strategy to lock up devs to windows machines, as there are many tools like ILSpy that .NET devs often use. The community answer, the last time I checked, was AvaloniaUI (https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia) which is cross platform port of WPF (at least XAML based). ILSpy is already ported to it (https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy https://github.com/icsharpcode/AvaloniaILSpy) but it runs poorly on Linux & mac (I have experienced random crashes and other UI problems). I hope the project will do well and within a year or two we will also see a port of Paint.NET to it.

sedatk 5y ago
> but totally gave up on GUI stuff. A cross-platform desktop/mobile GUI is coming on .NET 6 with .NET MAUI.
- edandersen 5y ago
  MAUI won't make .NET 6 launch and has been delayed.
wildrhythms 5y ago
I caved in and bought Pixelmator for Mac OS. It's actually nice to have an editor native to Mac OS that isn't cobbled together ancient UI and code a la Adobe Photoshop.
- vogre 5y ago
  Pixelmator is great, the closest thing to paint.net, an d it closes almost every possible demand of a casual user.

traviswt 5y ago

While historically quite useful, I swapped to Photopea.com and haven’t looked back. It continues to amaze me how well it works and how broad its feature set is.

peanut_worm 5y ago

This is the only program I still miss from Windows after switching to Linux. Pinta and Krita are close but they are both very buggy still.

hansoolo 5y ago

Since it's .NET 5 now, couldn't it maybe work on other OSes too?

CyberShadow 5y ago

Paint.NET is non-free software ... for an extremely petty reason. The reason? Someone new to programming changed the author in the about box and published it on their website. Well, the author sure showed those terrible plagiarizers by making the project non-free. (Meanwhile, it is as easy as ever to modify .NET applications without source access - see e.g. the numerous mods for Unity games.)

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