Holy shit, it’s happening, guys. Paint.net is getting official wine support. You know the windows situation is getting bad when even the developer of an app exclusively aimed at Windows is now shifting support to wine…
They’re contributing to the wine project and everything 🥲 https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60276
I came on here a few months ago ranting about direct 2D stub functions. Two days ago the dev stopped calling those exact direct 2D functions https://github.com/paintdotnet/Paint.NET-on-Wine/releases/tag/v5.200.9785.36400
What a time to be alive. Truly a great time to be a Paint.net enjoyer.
That comparison is off. Paint.net is actually a program I like on Windows (which I only use at work), that I miss on Linux anywhere else because it is not like GIMP. GIMP might be the mega-super-duper tool for artists and photo-manipulators, but try to put an arrow on a screenshot pointing at something and write a text next to it. I get that done faster by importing the screenshot into Inkscape and re-export it to PNG, even if if f’s up the original images’ resolution.