Andy2

Hey Guys - Thanks for super human effort from Trisquel and ubuntu 16.04LTS user of PhotoPlus and PagePlus. Just noticed this 23 hours old

Pity there are no public shareholder meetings? Yes I looked - Yes I looked at the company listed graphs sliding inexorably downwards as far as I could see. Reminds me of the time when the cream of our vehicle industry were invited to Germany at the end of WW2 and were offered VW on a plate. NO. NO. No we do not want that rubbish (Porsche design) and returned home with a little two stroke. Nothing changes 🤨 ps. this was why design engineers departed Great Britain for the good life all around the World and became part of the Jet-Set. Me too!

Hi @carlosrovira May I thank you for your grain of sand. Love it! 🥰 As I have probably said before I think using Affinity under wine in Linux will get to a solution for us Linux users first. So respect for @iambrad_au Brad you can hold on to your super generous offer a little longer. I am as you may know a huge Serif fan from Win3.1 and Win95 days and still use Serif regularly. I have to smile and sometimes laugh out loud as iOS is based on Linux as is Android OS. However it gets quite hilarious with the news that Win10 is to be replaced by Linux kernel and Msoft employ that overrated Linux guy. Reliability Issues not to mention security and privacy issues! 🤭 I have no idea to what you use or at what level you use software but I use Serif PhotoPlus and PagePlus under wine within Linux distros ubuntu 16.04 LTS but mostly under Trisquel now as I like the ethos, reliability and simplicity - right out of the box. Come on you wine developers – wish I had the skills to help out – but please accept my deepest respect for the work you are doing now and in the past as I would not be able to use Serif PhotoPlus and PagePlus today here in Derby UK – so near to Serif yet so far away from software. Crazy World 🤪 – Stay Safe All.

Yes I get it that if you are an employee or freelance professional your current best option is to use Affinity with available OS’s. This is stating the obvious and does not add much to the discussion here and as I said before “silly me won’t be expecting a Linux version any time soon!” As to the Why? Unless I missed it in this thread – did anyone suggest why the following software apps were ready, willing, able and do offer their products cross platform including Linux? Blackmagic Davinci Resolve, OpenShot Video Editor, Shotcut, Lightworks, Kdenlive & Blender yet there are no end of reasons given on this thread as to why under the same circumstance Affinity cannot – self policing – see above! There are of course many cross platform apps that I could have quoted but thought the above were more relevant being graphical creative packages. This is why I hope and dream that one day soon the clever people on this thread will develop a “wine” workaround for Affinity products that will hopefully not be immediately trashed by the Serif company. When they succeed I shall still keep and use Serif PhotoPlus and PagePlus as they are just so easy to use. I will of course pay Serif for their software rather than use a cracked version. I have just paid eFoundation for new phone forked Android (linux) system and use Trisquel and ubuntu freely on computers also using wine installed packages. XP-Pro for professional 3D CAD software though. It's just so good not to even have look at Win10 let alone maintain and update it and update that vital AV software which can in itself be spyware! Please All – do stay safe and well - and look out for the less fortunate.

Okay @sciencephysicist we get the inference. May I suggest you take a look at recent anti trust – abuse of power fines and for a more in depth analysis befitting your title; please visit: (a little out of date 2018) https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/ This iron grip to which they refer has been effective for many years now and though “small” billion dollar anti-trust and other naughty stuff fines may grab your attention from time to time you move on, as they say, and the relevance fades into obscurity just as they intended. As with our free media, an open joke that continues to fool, no laws or fines are required as self policing works far more effectively – don’t step out of line or else – everyone maintains the status-quo – we all know the unwritten rules. This has allowed Tech Giants or Global Inc to become so powerful and influence governments who just like y’all are now so reliant on them. Excuse me while I jump ship! Now with our beloved software only available through Global Inc App Stores………...silly me won’t be expecting a Linux version any time soon! Linux has viable and likeable apps for webrowser, email, letter writing etc covered. Shotwell photo organiser will do most things and Gimp is okay but not in same class as Affinity Photo as can be deduced from so many posts here. I think Affinity products would help Linux and BSD distros market share a little – their software being the missing link (or item) for a lot of people. What is more worrying than self policing and as far as I am aware no name for it has yet been coined: Apparently developers who base their Linux web browser variant on Ffox devise code to inhibit data miners from Global Inc and other snoopers – Ffox then with their next release have modified code to nullify anti-mining and hand back snooping rights to Global Inc. When the clever dedicated people eventually get Affinity software to perform via wine will Affinity with their next update scupper the advancement and all future wine advancements in similar manner? There will be no shortage of time expenditure or finance for that! Quote:- I do me, you do you ??? Then why are you here ???

Well @Redsandro thanks for dispelling the myths and disinformation – you seem to be very knowledgeable and well informed; just what is needed on this thread. 👍 Has anyone thought to follow the money – What if our beloved ever so easy to use Serif products were available to use on gnulinux, mint, ubuntu, redHat or even FreeBSD, at their well priced place in the market; hundreds or thousands of licences for the Affinity Linux version sold??? Linux uptake accelerates! Advertising and personal data mining revenues plummet! Now who would that upset? My email provider tiscali is stopping its free service so have signed up with a free EU provider – apparently this is getting your email stopped or sent to spam automatically – someone mainstream is getting very upset. There are many vested interests being played out here too. We want to buy from Serif yet Serif do not want to supply and seem to be quite hostile or unwilling to support even winehq. The marketplace isn’t supposed to work like that (it does) - I was only too happy to buy Serif Publishing Power-Suite to get away from Msoft, way back in Win3.1 days and pay for updates along the way until they no longer supported XP or Vista and would love to buy current Affinity products. I just hate Win10 and all intrusive software – it’s that simple. Just think what the Android fork or alternative degoogled smartphone will do – don’t panic – it isn’t happening yet! Yes I’m about to buy this phone in its development stage to get away from intrusive google and global Inc. I also use Tails 4.3 packing Tor browser live in RAM. It’s not about the money – I want to buy from Serif. Thanks to all who are working to solve this under wine. Hope it does not turn out like the Ffox derivatives with snooping – sorry, security issues.

Just contacted Serif with text below - they responded with link to this thread. Run from DVD PhotoPlus-X4 would not load under ubuntu or Trisquel - gnuLinux wine programme installer. Downloaded Affinity 1.8.0 would not load under ubuntu or Trisquel - gnuLinux wine programme installer. Thank goodness PhotoPlus9 from CD loads up and works just fine on both ubuntu or Trisquel - gnuLinux under wine. So does PagePlus10 on Trisquelgnulinux. Still have Win3.1 version Publishing Power-Suite! Phew 😍 Have money waiting to buy Affinity if you could assist winehq org to enable rather than hinder? 😉 $500,000 🙄 I have Win10 dual boot ubuntu 16.04 for now on my faster Dell Latitude Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2640M CPU @ 2.8GHz x 4 with 7.7GiB RAM. Planning on deleting Win10 as it has not been used for 12 months and perhaps replace ubuntu with Trisquel. Thanks to all who have worked so hard and spent so much time on this subject. The solution is above my pay grade but hope you guys will find a solution that can be implemented by myself