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Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Are you able to use WSL under Windows? Combined with something that can display X11 graphics (such as MobaXterm) you could pretty much use whatever Linux-based software from within the windows environment, including stuff like GIMP which does transparency and layers etc just fine
There are builds of GIMP for Windows.
LoL. You're right. I keep forgetting that for some reason