[sinuhe69]

Oh yes. I found Paint.Net and used it for many years as a quick photo editing solution. It's lightweight, reasonably fast and sophisticated enough for most daily tasks. However, I find I no longer install it on my new Windows boxes because of Photopea. Photopea is kind of a Photoshop Express clone and runs entirely in the browser. It's amazing how fast and easy photo editing software can be. WASM is really amazing stuff!

If you want a cross-platform photo editing tool, give it a try!

[moffkalast]

Hmm yes "It seems like you're blocking our ads" is exactly the kind of popup I want from an image editor, lol.

[infinitezest]

Its always amazing to me how, even on a site inhabited almost exclusively by people that make a living writing software, people get so offended by the idea of paying for software. As long as software does not have lock-in and is offered for a reasonable price, I'm very happy to pay someone for their time and ingenuity.

[jahnu]

You can also pay a small subscription fee to avoid ads.

[KronisLV]

Some people will be okay with the ads.

Others will prefer to go the subscription fee route to get rid of them.

Some others will look at the ads and just decide to use software without anything like that in the first place, something truly free.

I think it's nice that we get the choice and that there's enough software out there for that to be the case. At the same time, if developers are successfully monetizing web based software, I wonder why that's not the case for desktop software.

I remember using a program called RaiDrive (https://www.raidrive.com/) to mount ext4 volumes through SFTP on a Windows machine and it worked pretty well, however they had an ad banner at the top of the window which seemed oddly fitting for a free version of software with lots of functionality, but maybe that's just due to me being used to ads everywhere nowadays (albeit uBlock Origin and Pi-hole exist).

[firebot]

The best part is it works pretty great on mobile. Really amazing stuff. Love photopea!