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    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.

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    [–] TheGingerNut@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 53 minutes ago

    Me who's been pinned on 2.1.2 since the abysmal GTK3 upgrade: You know what, I might just check that out!

    [–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 5 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

    It's interesting that it's seemingly easier to make the windows version of Paint.NET work on Wine, than bother compiling it for .NET on Linux? I wonder if the dev regrets starting with .NET in the first place?

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago) (1 children)

    compiling it for .NET on Linux

    It always sounds so simple for the layperson. Just looking through the list of DLLs in the portable ZIP, PDN uses Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms namespace), which, as far as I understand, isn't included in the cross-platform releases of .NET. They'd have to rebuild the entire UI with .NET MAUI or some other cross-platform toolkit. Then there are lots of other bundled libraries that may or may not work in a .NET-on-Linux environment.

    Releasing and then supporting a second platform is never as easy as just compiling the executable. Figuring out the quirks and differences of various systems, especially one as heterogenous as the Linux ecosystem, is a drain on resources that small development studios often can't afford. Raiguard (hallowed be his name), one of the developers of Factorio, and the person who is single-handedly maintaining the Linux-native build, wrote a blog post about its challenges.

    [–] mittorn@masturbated.one 1 points 11 minutes ago

    @rtxn @BananaTrifleViolin Nothing prevents you from using Window Forms implementation form mono

    [–] alpine_jim@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

    right, wasn't Mono supposed to handle things like this?

    [–] Thorry@feddit.org 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    It makes no sense, .NET is fully supported on Linux and has been for years. There is an official SDK and it's capable of creating full standalone executables, or smaller ones requiring the runtime libraries to be installed on the target system. As far as I know good packages exist for just about any distro. .NET is fully open source and not just worked on by Microsoft, but a large community.

    Creating a Linux executable from any .NET code is as simple as running a single command, it supports cross platform compilation as well. With support for a range of architectures and OSes.

    The only caveat is all the code needs to be properly managed code, any unmanaged code is most likely not cross platform compatible and is thus not recommended. It can even break as drivers or the OS is updated for example, so it's a bad idea to have unmanaged code and usually not needed.

    [–] groet@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Only ".NET core" is cross Plattform. ".NET framework" is Windows only. If they startend developing in framework they cant simply compile to linux.

    [–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 1 points 39 minutes ago

    Yep, if it were that easy, even Wine would have 100% parity at this point.

    [–] auzy1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

    Loved paint.net. miss paint.net. this is awesome news

    [–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Immediately made cover art for Lutris because why not

    [–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 hour ago

    I don’t understand this interface. Where’s the AI button? /s

    [–] JelleWho@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Just commenting here so I can pick this up later. I'm still deeply interested in this. The Pinta interface has not be as intuitive than what paint.net has been

    [–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    Feel free to ask me any questions if you need help setting it up. There's also another repo I haven't looked into yet here: https://github.com/toehead2001/Paint.NETOnWine

    I literally just took the latest portable build, threw it into lutris, and set the wine version to 11.20. You only need the install.sh if you don't already have the required wine components, which my system already did.

    [–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

    There's literally a button to save a post or comment.

    [–] klangcola@reddthat.com 7 points 3 hours ago

    Excellent news 😃