[alkonaut]

System.Drawing was always just a wrapper for GDI(+), and you CAN use it on Linux via using System.Drawing.Common which is a wrapper for GDI+ (Windows) or something else like libgdi+ on non-windows. It works - but it feels more like a compat hack than anything else. System.Drawing wouldn't look the way it does if it wasn't designed to be a Windows only API around GDI+. ImageSharp was always a good lib but now the license was murdered. Hopefully a true OSS fork will come along. SkiaSharp is also a good alternative, especially if you also need the drawing bits.

Missing a Graphics Library in .NET (5-8) is just half the story. It's of course missing an entire UI library too. But Microsoft, perhaps wisely, chose not to also implement a whole xplat UI library. Avalonia/Uno/etc are already there.