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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.
by 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 agoPinta is the Linux fork of Paint.NET and it's not quite as good, but good enough for quick edits.
- pizza234 5y agoCrashes for me as well unfortunately, in such a measure that I stopped using it entirely.
- Zababa 5y agoPinta 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 agoHere it doesn't crash as often but most times selecting a color doesn't work. And the ocasionay crash, of course.
- morganvachon 5y agoI'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 The packaged .debs are sorely outdated and buggy.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
- Zababa 5y agoI am using Ubuntu, pop os to be exact. Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try.
- yodon 5y agoWow - a Linux port of a large, complex, old school .NET app like Paint.NET is a higher bar for cross-platform UI than I was aware .NET supported at this point
- Zababa 5y agoPinta is not a port. It uses GTK+ and cairo. Some code comes from Paint.NET but not all of it.
- Macha 5y agoYeah, up until 3.x Paint.NET was released under a MIT license in a source available sense (no outside contributions accepted, just source dumps with releases). The author didn't like when people would relabel paint.net and release it (sometimes for a fee), so he stopped doing that somewhere during 3.x. Pinta is based on using the engine for one of those with a new Gtk# UI. Though at this stage a lot of that's been rewritten, so it's pretty much just some filters that are used as-is from old Paint.NET. Even though Paint.NET moves much slower these days, Pinta has moved even slower and the UI rewrite was never as polished as Paint.NET's WPF UI.
- Zababa 5y agoThanks for the clarification!
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y agoCrashes, lot of bugs. It's not quite good at all, it's unusable.
- rozab 5y agoPinta is basically unusable. It's a port of the last open paint.net source from over 10 years ago. Paint.net went closed source at this time due to plagiarism issues. Hopefully .net 5 moves us closer to having a Linux version!
- as1mov 5y agoSurprised to see this downvoted, I've been using Pinta as the Paint.NET replacement on Linux and it's been pretty stable so far. Though I do remember accidentally installing it from the default Ubuntu repositories once and it kept crashing really often. Turns out that version is almost 6 years behind the current stable release.
- tyingq 5y agoIt's still buggy, but the latest Pinta (v1.7) is WAY less buggy that what you'll typically get from your os package manager.
- pvorb 5y agoThe same goes for foobar2000 as well.
- Zababa 5y agoFor me it's MusicBee, but the feeling is the same.
- klodolph 5y agofoobar2000 is what I use on Windows, but Audacious is what I use on Linux. Is that good enough?
- noisem4ker 5y agoThere's DeaDBeeF, which aims to be its open-source clone. https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/ https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/
- psykus 5y agoWorks fine on Wine, FWIW. I've even seen Wine specific fixes mentioned in the patch notes for foobar2000.