[mnurzia]

paint.net is one of the only pieces of software that I miss from Windows. After having started with Tux Paint, I found paint.net extremely intuitive and easy to use (very nice for making goofy memes in middle/high school, and quick/easy drawings). I think that even after not having used it for years I am still more productive in it than I am in, say, Photoshop or GIMP.

[dsage]

I have found Pinta (pinta-project.com) is a great replacement that works on Linux. I don't use it very often anymore but last time I did it was basically a drop-in replacement.

No affiliation, just something I have used.

[graynk]

Pinta is much less stable unfortunately. Paint .NET is just much, much more polished and pleasant to use

[busymom0]

Slightly related, if someone wants Photoshop like features, I would recommend Photopea. It's basically photoshop but all processing is done in browser and doesn't need to be installed.

[lxe]

Photopea is one of the few services I have zero hesitation paying a premium to remove ads.

Absolute mastercraft of a software.

[pureheartlover]

I enjoy kolourpaint. Its quite similar to the old windows paint before it started adding layers and whatever else in 7+.

[groosha]

If only there was KolourPaint for macOS. Recently switched to Mac and I really miss simple editor for quick editing (crop image, add another one, add text... in short: making low-effort memes).

Upd: looks like it might be possible in the future [1]

[1]: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/kolourpaint/-/merge_requests...

[UberFly]

Tux Paint? I remember my 5 year old using this.

[mnurzia]

yep, I started using it when I was 5, so that tracks.

[mlvljr]

There is a clone, Pinta.

[cxr]

Pinta is a fork of an older version of Paint.NET and (as far as I know) doesn't aim to be a clone.