You can try running VMWare Fusion, Parallels, or VirtualBox to run Windows and therefore Paint.NET :) I personally use Fusion and it's been great for purposes such as this.
Try Pinta, it's pretty close to Paint.net in terms of functionality. But make sure to install it from the repository specified on the website. The version provided by various distributions is very old and unstable.
Wow, I haven't heard mention of paint.net in sooo long! I used that years ago, and it was awesome...then numerous migrations, and different types of jobs (where needed less use for ms paint or paint.net)...lately just use whatever is on the OS - sometimes it is GIMP, sometimes its ms paint. Yeah, if no one else vouches for paint.net, i'll definitely vouch for it!
You can take a look at Pinta[0] I don't recall if it's a clone or a port of Paint.Net, but works for me as a quick tool... the OS integration (open with) needs some work though. It uses Mono as a portable runtime and is decent enough, again for most work. IMHO easier to use than Gimp, though not as feature rich.
I use Paint.Net on my Windows machines. It's a great piece of software—and free. I bought the Microsoft Store version to support the author, although I continue to install the free download.
I also run https://github.com/viliusle/miniPaint using Cloudflare Pages so it's hosted in one of my sub-domains as minipaint.[mydomainhere] and it's great for quick jobs.
I really, really wish there was a paint.net clone for Linux. Paint.net is windows freeware, closed source since an early release, which is both feature rich and a pleasure to use. It covers 99% of use cases ordinary people have.
I believe the author closed the source after some other projects tried to use it commercially. It still gets regular updates.
There's an attempt at a clone, Pinta, which was based off the early open source version but it didn't get much further than mspaint functionality.
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