release VS Avalonia

I changed the sprite myself using Paint.NET which is a free graphics program similar to the Paint that comes with Windows.

Why download from a different site, when you can get it directly from GitHub?

For some reason, when downloading through the installer offered on the website, I got the same error. Luckily for you and I, paint.net hosts their offline installers for the latest version on GitHub. On Windows 11, the x64 portable install and the MSI worked just fine, but the regular installer didn't.

In the meantime, you can download Paint.NET from GitHub: https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases

Paint.net 4.3 just came out and has shifted from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 5. I was wondering if this would make it possible to run through wine somehow? The portable installer doesn't seem to work, however the regular installer goes through to the point where it tries to install a windows update and asks you to restart the system, however when you do, it will continue to ask you to restart your system the next time you run the installer. Here's a link to the releases on the github repo, thanks for any help to get this working on linux in advance! https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases

Download paint.net (portable, in my case) https://github.com/paintdotnet/release/releases/tag/v4.3

You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.

[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].

The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases.

See my comment [2]

[1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128

Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.

Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/

Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device."

(From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )

It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.

Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.

[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)

For desktop, Avalonia, hands down.

https://avaloniaui.net/

Open source, powered by Skia, backed by JetBrains, and quite battle-tested at this point for small to medium-sized apps. In theory perfectly capable for enterprise as well, since it's basically a spiritual successor to WPF, which has been an industry standard for about 15 years.

They're diving into mobile and WASM well, but that's more of a recent effort and I haven't tested that yet.