Pinta
Simple cross-platform image editing software.
What is Pinta?
Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after 
Paint.NET . Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
On Windows, Pinta requires the .NET framework, just like Paint.NET.
Paint.NET . Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, and Windows.On Windows, Pinta requires the .NET framework, just like Paint.NET.
Recent user activities on Pinta
- bigbigboy added Pinta as alternative(s) to Excalidraw
- fmelo Upvoted a comment on PintaConstantly crashes on Linux when trying to crop a section of a picture.
- bonepyramid liked Pinta
The best MS Paint alternative
Pinta is STILL the BEST Paint.net alternative for MacOS and Linux in 2020.
Until paint.net comes to the mac or linux when it leaves behind microsofts crapy .net framework, this is the only similar (though hoenstly just a clone of paint.net) program to paint.net.
Constantly crashes on Linux when trying to crop a section of a picture.
It's an upgrade to basic image editors but not without its faults. Hotkeys are a good addition and picking colors also shows the RGN and hex values. I really like the ability to work on multiple images on one window. Working with it feels snappy but booting takes around 4 seconds on an SSD. Random crashing is an issue. When saving changes a prompt always asks what quality you want to save your image as, which is effectively useless. Resizing images is more precise than some ambiguous percentage and most users would do that first anyway. This prompt cannot be disabled.
Pinta drives me nuts. They've been working on the next minor release (1.6 -> 1.7) since 2015, and it still crashes when opening a simple PNG.
But other than that, it does the job.
I really liked Paint.NET, but was saddened to learn that it wouldn't be supported on anything other than Windows; I guess it has something to do with depending on the .NET framework? Pinta is the closest you can get to a Paint.NET experience on Linux. However... I may be a very unlucky fellow, but Pinta occasionally has some noticeable slowdown while using the program. Whether it be changing a tool or opening a new dialog, Pinta intermittently stops to catch its breath before doing what you wanted it to do. I don't think it's my computer hardware, as other more intensive programs run fine. Other than that little issue, Pinta is a nice program to use.
I decided to try Paint.NET in a virtual Windows 7 machine to compare performance. Paint.NET was more responsive than Pinta.
[Edited by TerrifiedTyphlosion, June 18]
Piece of junk saved a corrupted version of a file I was working on as .ora and only two layers out of 5. I lost 4+ hours of work. Crashes when you so much as sneeze. Use Krita instead, much better interface and works better too. Used on Ubuntu MATE.
[Edited by ghylama, December 01]