Hey guys! I just wanted to share a proof of concept real quick. No hate at all to GIMP or Pinta, but I just really love Paint.net as I’ve been using it for over a decade. And since I completely switched over to Arch a year ago, that means the only way I can enjoy using Paint.net again is if I add all the missing Direct 2D implementations. How hard could it be? 😅
As you can see, it’s not perfect… or even usable, but it loads without crashing! And that’s good enough for me to call it quits tonight.
It would be nice to have something as basic and fast as paint. I just want to fast load resize and text overlay in a couple clicks and call it done.
I just ran MS Paint (XP version) using wine. You just need to install mfc42 library and it runs great.
KolourPaint is very close to an exact clone of MS Paint from around Windows XP.
There are also xpaint and Pinta, which are somewhat different, but might satisfy your requirements too.
I use kolour paint on kde, there are a lot of other similar FOSS softwares around too.
Linux Mint has a program simply called “Drawing” that does exactly that. You can resize pictures, draw shapes, write text, paint and save as other formats. It’s a big buggy and unoptimized, but it’s cool. For simple things, it’s sometimes more convenient than GIMP.
If it works on Pop!, as most things seem to, it’s in.