MeatRadiator

It's stronger than "seems like"
They have stated they are not interested in crowdfunding.

Yeah, you can. When you get right down to the bare basics, the only real differences between all these various distros is when they update their libraries. Appimages, flatpaks, and snaps solve this problem by including all the libraries with it, making this a non-issue.
...as has been stated many a time before in this very thread.
But what about desktop environments? Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc. etc. etc.? Doesn't matter. They're all cross compatible with each other. Worst case scenario is that you get an app that doesn't fit in with the style of the rest of your desktop. But hell, Windows users have been facing this problem for years and years now, and it hasn't been a dealbreaker. It's the same on Linux.
But what about package managers, distro specific installers, and all that good stuff? Yeah, back in the day, it was something of a pain when you had an .rpm file, but you were on a Debian based distro, and you had to use something like Alien to convert the installers. It's hardly an issue anymore though. Why? Because you have appimages, flatpaks, and snaps now. Package managers these days are more about how your distro updates itself, and where you get your FOSS software.
It's just not as big of a deal as you think it is anymore. If the Affinity suite were to come to Linux, all Serif would have to do is target a distro to serve as a base to support, and they're done.

If you are a new arrival to this thread and have found that it is locked but still want to show your support for Affinity on Linux, simply like this post

Yup. I've been checking on Akira for a bit now. Looks promising, but it's still very, very early days for it.

But that's 1% of ALL People owning a Computer. Serif would probably be happy to have that many customers.

So why not even try a Kickstarter-Campaign? If you raise enough Money you'll keep it to make a Linux Version and if not you'll just pay the backers back. No Risk for you or the backers, no confidence needed. Lot's of people would probably even be willing to back a lot more than the List-Price of the Software just to see it happen. I don't think it's unlikely to get >1.000.000 out of the Linux Community for such a Suite.
 

NOPE!

Have you guys seen this guy?
 

Hi 👋🏻

yes.

I dont think they've even read anything in this thread for years.

Guys are they still not going to port the software?

The more I use Krita, the more I realize it's a better analog to Photo than I initially thought. It's geared more heavily towards digital painting than raw photo manipulation, but it can still do the latter fairly well. At the very least, it has some decent content aware/inpainting brush style tools, and honest to god non-destructive adjustment layers, both of which GIMP lacks.
I'd still rather have Photo and Designer in Linux, but I'm finding I can use Krita without feeling like I'm sacrificing all that much.
edit: You can even make it look pretty snazzy.

So, you came here to denigrate Linux for not being what you want it to be, from however many years ago you tried it. It wasn't for you, so you make sure to stop here to let us all know how TERRIBLE. AN. IDEA.  it is to use Linux and asking our wonderful Serif friends to count our voices, for something you don't even like. Then why are you even here? If it's to be an anti-Linux troll, there are far more appropriate forums for your angst.  We are a community here of artists and designers who are here to help each other to appreciate and learn ways to get the art out there with the use of Affinity products, not to condescend to others who disagree with our choices of personal software. This is a post to let Serif know we are here and eager for a solution for OUR problem, which clearly isn't yours.  You dislike Debian, don't use it, don't plan on using it but come to tell us all how we shouldn't either? Watch out, you're starting to sound a bit American   Go make some beautiful art, then stare at it until you feel less salty

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Exactly. I'm developer in job and designer at home. Love to choose the best. Ad developer I'm mainly programming cross platform with c++ (Qt) and it worked like a charm. It's not hard to create performant and good tools for cross platform. Only drawback is the increase in testing effort...

Hi Jorgen, isn't it great? To have the freedom of choice?

Do true. But luckily the world changes slowly but in a productive direction. We have still lot if windows desktop stations, but the main ci cd issues on Linux and works perfect. More and more colleges move to Linux admin main os too. They love it, how easy programming becomes with all the tools and workflows.
I also do a lot of SPA based on angular and express (typescript) and thanks too visual studio code, I can do this all on Linux as well 😍
Still missing my creative tools. So Serif can really get the jackpot to be the first on market
 

Yes, I mean when I saw Affinity first time was a WOW moment, then I've start praying for the linux version, I've became religious again
Affinity seriously now, please just do it! All companies will pay, I will pay, everybody will pay, because we love the best design tools on the best OS.

Loved reading this thread! If we could get Affinity products on Linux.... That's BYE BYE Adobe, BYE BYE Windows! (Or Mac). All about variety of choice, and not monopoly.

I was actually thinking about fonts... but there's still this string that clearly print "Serif.Interop.Persona.UserInterface.DocumentRenderControl.WndProc" which make me think the issue is much broader than that I may be wrong though.
You're right about the wine forums, they're more used to read the logs than us and may have encountered the error before.
 
EDIT : Topic create at WineHQ : https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=33433

Would it work through WINE or something similar, would that be any cheaper?
Faso

This is currently our only hope, as the Affinity team will not work on a Linux version for at least this major release cycle of the suite.
However, currently a WINE version does not work. With some hacks you can get the app running, but it will crash as soon as the art board is initialized. The OpenGL or Direct3D initialization (I forgot which one is used in the latest version) has some unmapped functions that causes the crash AFAIK.
What we do know from recent experience with WINE and Proton is that - unlike running a VM - WINE performance could be similar to a native Windows version.
We should have a FAQ for this topic, because most questions have been answered now. All we can do is wait for some WINE or Proton devs to figure out what functions to map to WINE libraries, or start a crowdfund to pay a WINE dev to do so.

Your best option there is probably to contact CodeWeavers, the company that produces CrossOver (tl;dr commercial Wine), and ask what them what the state of progress is on the Affinity software range. They have a specific Contact CodeWeavers option on their website.

Dear Affinity team
Dear Affinity users here in the forum
I think the time is right for commercial developers like you guys to think about the professional user of the future. A user that may love macOS for its polished UI and ecosystem, but realises that an open source operating system like Linux better fits with their ideology and world view than Apple's closed source "profit first" approach. I do not try to bash Apple here. I also don't want to exclude Windows users, but I don't know many Windows users personally, so I really can't judge what they might want. The kind of user I am referring to might already have installed a modern Linux distribution like Manjaro out of curiosity (and because they feel the desire to move to a platform that they feel they would like to support more) and test ran a couple of apps on it. This kind of user may have come to the conclusion that Linux has actually come a long way and is not that far away from macOS in many respects (and even much ahead of it in some areas).
I count myself to this type of professional user. I have at least 10 friends and work colleagues who think alike. They are mostly web developers and use Linux as their daily drivers already. They use open source software and for special needs, like development IDEs, they have forward thinking vendors like JetBrains in their backs who provide them with their cutting edge IDEs and tools for Linux already.
For me it is not so easy however, because I am more of a broadly diversified kind of power user who relies not only on open source fundamentals and development IDEs, but also on music production tools like Bitwig Studio (available for Linux!) and Davinci Resolve (available for Linux as well!), just to name a few of my favourites. :) Naturally, in the music and video creation field plugins and extensions are a big part of whats installed on my Macs these days and for this, the market on Linux is actually still quite thin. But there as well, some manufacturers are not forgetting Linux (u-he comes to mind, with their flagship audio plugins amongst others) and so there's a couple of interesting offers available there already as well.
To cut a long story short. I made a list of all the apps I am using on macOS today and found/test ran viable alternatives for Linux in many cases (some of them open source, some closed source). Really, the only thing that I could not (and do not want) to replace is Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo!
Me and my friends would buy licenses of those apps for Linux in the blink of an eye.
That's all I wanted to say. :)
Thanks for making Designer, Photo and Publisher), which I bought a license but have not yet used too often! <3
All the best
Amadeus

I am afraid that Serif Affinity staff have made it very clear a number of times that there will not be any port over to Linux because it's not economical to do so given the small desktop market share that Linux has.
If you're after alternatives to Affinity Designer then try out Gravit, Inkscape, Vectr and for Affinity Photo replacements try out Pixeluvo, Krita, Fotoxx, PhotoLine with Wine or the online + electron app Photopea.