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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.

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Pinta is the Linux fork of Paint.NET and it's not quite as good, but good enough for quick edits.

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.

Here it doesn't crash as often but most times selecting a color doesn't work. And the ocasionay crash, of course.

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 The packaged .debs are sorely outdated and buggy.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/pin...

[2] https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/

[3] https://github.com/PintaProject

I am using Ubuntu, pop os to be exact. Thanks for the info, I'll give it a try.

Wow - 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

Pinta is not a port. It uses GTK+ and cairo. Some code comes from Paint.NET but not all of it.

Yeah, 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.

Thanks for the clarification!

Crashes for me as well unfortunately, in such a measure that I stopped using it entirely.

Crashes, lot of bugs. It's not quite good at all, it's unusable.

Pinta 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!

Surprised 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.

It's still buggy, but the latest Pinta (v1.7) is WAY less buggy that what you'll typically get from your os package manager.

The same goes for foobar2000 as well.

For me it's MusicBee, but the feeling is the same.

foobar2000 is what I use on Windows, but Audacious is what I use on Linux. Is that good enough?

There's DeaDBeeF, which aims to be its open-source clone.

https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/

Works fine on Wine, FWIW. I've even seen Wine specific fixes mentioned in the patch notes for foobar2000.

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