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System.Drawing never worked well on linux, and is mostly used in windows-only gui.

To generate/process images, there are other, great, .NET library like SkiaSharp, or ImageSharp.

I think there is still a lot of benefit in a first-party library which provides shared abstractions like `Color` and `Bitmap`, even without any fancy manipulation capabilities.

I came across this with System.Drawing on Ubuntu and successfully managed to replace it with SkiaSharp code instead. It was drawing a map for a game in memory then saving to a .jpg file.

I use VS 2022 Community on Windows, tested it there then published to Linux and uploaded over SSH to a VPS. It worked very nicely.

So are these mostly documentation/outreach issues, then?

The documentation of System.Drawing point to these projects:

> If you can't use System.Drawing with your application, recommended alternatives include ImageSharp, SkiaSharp, Windows Imaging Components, and Microsoft.Maui.Graphics

Sadly .NET devs will jump on any first party software and won't look a lot in community alternatives.

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