aye, i also really hope this will turn out good in the end. but you know what they say - hope for the best, prepare for the worst. at the same time…

[…] and all the work people are going to do […]

if i recall correctly i think Rick is the only person calling the shots in terms of development. if that’s not the case then your sentiment holds up a lot but if he really is the only one then i’ll keep being worried. i’ve seen too many developers go down the AI path and absolutely gut their image as a result and i hope that’s not what’s gonna happen to paint.net, there’s genuinely no other program like it

honestly? imo it should not have existed at all then. i feel like this is going to be really bad for the long run if Rick starts using AI not only for the compatibility layer but also for paint.net’s core codebase.

and frankly i think if he had made the codebase open source again we would have made a lot more progress on Linux compatibility. paint.net doesn’t really have a solid reason to stay closed source imo, especially because Rick has already shown that he can handle copyright infringment cases when he secured the paint.net domain (his reasoning for making the codebase closed source was that people were stealing his code, rebranding it, and publishing as their own. imo his decision didn’t do much as you can still decompile the binaries, change all the branding, and then recompile and publish, so this only really hurt contributions to the project and nothing else)

that was the old controversy. nowadays it’s the latest alpha release (v5.2) being coded in large part by AI

i know right LMAO i need to get some popcorn too

i bestow upon thee the gift of READING THE ARTICLE!!!
sorry

anyway rick brewster, the dev of paint.net, used Claude to code the compatibility code for Linux. on one hand i can understand it because Direct2D is a piece of shit but on the other hand i feel like he could’ve gone about this in a different way than slopifying his codebase.

A bit late to the party here, but today I flashed Ubuntu Touch onto a Xiaomi Poco X3, and it’s… well, it’s rough.

All the base functionality seems to be there, calls should work (not sure because I didn’t test them extensively), sms works, location/gps works, nfc is supported, camera is… passable, battery life is certainly, and noticeably worse but that’s a given - when on standby, the battery goes down roughly 8% every 5 hours, so approx. 27% per day on standby.

While I’m really glad to see how much Linux phone development sped up, they are still nowhere near daily driver status - even the phones built with Linux support in mind are not faring well from what I’ve seen. Even then, I’m keeping this Poco X3 because Android’s days seem to be numbered.