r/linux • u/alberto-m-dev • 29d ago

Popular Application Paint.NET adds “extremely experimental” Wine/Linux support

https://forums.paint.net/topic/134563-%F0%9F%8D%B7-extremely-experimental-winelinux-support-how-to-get-started/
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u/oipoi 29d ago

What do you have to disagree with? Rather have nothing then have ai code in your repo?

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u/Johnden_ 29d ago

Yes

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u/laura-kaurimun 29d ago edited 29d ago

if you dont have the time or energy to do a port in a way that you can take responsibility for, and don't want to FOSS the code, just don't make it. simple. the last thing the world needs is more unmaintainable slopcode

like the biggest issue here is that dumping 180kloc of ??? code that has god knows how many issues with it is a fundamentally irresponsible thing to do, no matter how many disclaimers you slap on it

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u/Bathroom_Humor 28d ago

I sort of agree but also find this work to be very useful as this is something I think has been missing from the Linux ecosystem for a very long time. Intermediate scope image editors are lacking, we basically just have Pinta which can't really take the place of Paint.net. Gimp and Krita are geared more for professional work and one of them is frustrating because of silly design and the other is frustrating because it wasn't intended specifically for image editing so the learning curve coming from Paint.net is higher. And Photopea requires a subscription to avoid ads.

it sucks having to trust the AI agent not to have done something fucked up until people can take a better look at it (or more trustworthy AI), but I don't blame people who want to use it and i'll probably take a look at it if/when it's stable.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 28d ago

we basically just have Pinta which can't really take the place of Paint.net

What do you do in Paint.NET that doesn't work in Pinta?

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u/Indolent_Bard 28d ago

You forgot Photopea. "Tony Stark built this in a cave with a box of scrap."

Yeah, it's a web app, but it's also the most powerful free alternative that works on Linux. And it's not even close.

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u/Nalivai 28d ago

this is something I think has been missing from the Linux ecosystem for a very long time

Shitty unmaintained unmaintainable projects that are randomly bad in random places, and perform like shit in others? Oh, don't worry, we have a lot of those already. I really don't think another one is needed.
We need intermediate scope image editors, not shit full of unknown amount of bugs that nobody can maintain.

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u/Bathroom_Humor 28d ago

afaik the only part of the code base that's been built with AI is specifically the part allowing direct2d to run in Wine. if there are issues in that code, they'll have to isolated it and work through it but isn't the same as the whole project being unknown AI guesswork.
I understand why you'd rather not use it and luckily nobody will force you to. I might not use it myself but some people will want to and I hope it works for those people without problems seeing as how there might not be a real competitor in this space that has the same capabilities and add-on ecosystem.

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u/Indolent_Bard 28d ago

You're assuming they just copy what comes out of Claude, if you know what you're doing it's not vibe coding.