Andy2

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.

I've bought Photo, Designer and Publisher for use on my Mac Mini (which I use as a secondary computer for compiling iOS apps, for running any software that doesn't work on Ubuntu, and in case my laptop dies).
I'd really like to buy them for use on my main laptop, which runs Ubuntu 20.04. Please add support for Ubuntu in future!
I would also buy it for my employees and family members who run Ubuntu.
I think it would do well commercially, and enable more people to switch to the platform.

I'm moving to linux as well.. Make it happen guys.. Port your awesome programs!!!

They could also publish it through Flatpak as Gravit Designer and Jetbrains are doing which make would give them a easy port to all distros.

Hi.  I don't want to add to any argument.
I'm just here to say that I pledge to buy a minimum of 10 copies of Affinity Photo for Linux if/when it becomes available.
Not only that, but for a Linux version, I'd be happy to pay 5-6x the amount that is currently being charged for the Windows version.  The company credit card is burning a whole in my pocket just waiting to be used for exactly this kind of purchase.  I'd buy as many as 50 copies depending on the cost, but definitely 10 copies at MINIMUM no matter what.
As for distro compatibility, just follow the VFX reference platform and I'm happy.  (Probably go with RHEL/CentOS 7 if you want to follow what companies like Autodesk or The Foundry support.)
 

Affinity team, I bought Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher and will buy all of them when a Linux version comes out.  

Hi, I'm in the process to move from Mac to Linux. I almost have all what I need and I'm seening theses days (2020) Mac is no more needed, at least in my case.
I've tracked Affinity software is the only software I needed to move completely from Mac.
so hope this could be done. I expect Linux will be increasing in the upcoming years as people see that Windows and Mac is no more needed, in the same way people saw that Adobe software is no more needed.
Hope this response makes another grain of sand to make it be considered
I'll be buying Linux versions of three Affinity solutions as well to support it.
Thanks

Same here. I have the windows version of the affinity triple.
Would buy the linux version again, even for twice as much of the costs.

I've bought Mac and iPad versions of Photo and Designer and I just want to add my support for Linux versions. I would buy immediately if it was available.

As an individual, I for one would purchase $1000 worth of Linux licenses and give away the rest as a show of support for a Linux port.

Whilst i appreciate that there would be some effort involved i cant imagine it would be a grand canyon sized jump to port from mac os to Linux.

Charge us double for a Linux version....I'd still pay....hell...I'd day 1 per-order from the moment it was announced.

It IS an unrealistic dream, but if nobody pursued unrealistic dreams...(well then we wouldn't have Affinity Photo).   Dreams can become reality - a quick survey of history reveals that such events quite often involve persistence and very squeaky wheels.
I do, however, completely agree that we can (right now) vote with out wallets and support open source products.  In fact, my inclination is that this should probably be our first priority.    However,  they do still have a way to go and I do think that a large commercial product will give Linux an enormous boost in converting market share, and so, is a fight worth pursuing.  

My point isn't that dreams and risk always pan out (or even that they pan out most of the time),  but, rather,  that risk is generally an essential ingredient for CHANGE and we, the Design/Linux community are in the unenviable position of trying to find somebody to take a risk on us.   That requires speaking up (and speaking up always tends to annoy people... so be it  ...especially in this context - it is, after all, just an online forum - not the front yard of somebody's home).
I have to apologize to sciencephysicist, who is making sound points (that I mostly agree with - and I don't think he/she is even saying that people shouldn't speak up here - and that was the point I instinctively felt inclined to push back against).  I have my own chips on my shoulder that sometimes get the better of me.  I personally think that this forum is a perfectly suitable place for folks to make their case (and occasionally duke it out), and so I wanted to throw my support behind those who continue to join/argue/contribute to the discussion (even if they don't always get along).

Survivorship bias on display here.

I'd like to add, though, to be clear.... From a practical POV for an artist who feels that making art, design (or even image editing for non artistic purposes, ie, not for photography, design or illustration) is way more important than the OS choice, then there's absolutely no doubt for me that the practical thing to do is to pick Windows or Mac OS, and just use Affinity, as despite open source graphic software becoming quite better  than ever, Affinity is eons ahead.

I think that's the second most realistic approach.
One developer at Serif (forgot the username) is/was a Linux user themselves. They are probably aware of the massive new developments in WINE concerning OpenGL, Direct3D 12, Vulkan3D. I imagine if they figured out it's technically possible to make a lot of people happy by making a slight change in the Windows version, they would.
Third option is they start working on a Linux version. The time they said "not now, maybe later" is what, 3 years old? Later is now. Perhaps we can ask @Andy Somerfield or @TonyB if new developments or this ongoing thread in the background has changed their perspective or ambitions at all.

False. Node.js developers were the most sought after backend developers in 2019. It is a huge success story.
True, but the first battle is won. Linux now supports far more games than OSX through new developments. It's starting to rival Windows.
False. Ask Red Hat Enterprise Linux what they and their billions of revenue think about free software.
I understand your frustration but please don't spread misinformation.

Okay. You were being ambiguous then. You seemed to talk about the Linux Foundation and how they should do something contrary to their mission. Also, the Linux Foundation doesn't really care about desktop.
False. Look at this topic. Look at pay what you want bundles. Linux users pay the most.
Wine argues differently:
 

Fortunately a company and its designers in china started creating a new linux desktop that combines best from windows and mac a few years ago.
It is called Deepin. Besides a fluent desktop design they complete the environment with lots of standard apps, to fill the gap, having a app for every use. (Screenshot, Backup, USB-Media creator, Calculator, Calendar, ...) and even a programming interface, to integrate your application in its desktop.
With using Manjaro Deepin, i was able to move sucessfully away from mac and windows.
For me it is the first serious competitor for mac and windows, still having some missing features, but getting updates and new applications regularly.
But with Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, two new great apps, i start missing them in linux for sure.
At the moment lots of web developers migrate to Linux, due DELLS developer editions of the XPS notebook. Some get back to windows, since there is a linux subsystem available.
The old Photoshop ran fine with wine. But it's getting old ... and a software like Affinity Designer is painfully missing on Linux.
So i want to push the linux question again ...

I believe that. But there is always hope. Thanks Team Serif 

Stop and think! Imagine a user looking forward to Affinty for Linux! That's me! lololol
 
Macs are getting very expensive here in Brazil, another OS that designers look at from afar is Linux! Many users! Adobe does not seem to want to produce for linux, if Affinity wants to reach everyone who is migrating and current users. Dreams.
 

Thank you! I've just about had enough of Windows 10 and I miss Linux terribly