justajeffy

I don't block opposing views. I block people when they are extremely arrogant or otherwise unpleasant in the way they express their views. If we can have a civil discourse despite being on opposing sides of an issue, then I will always pay attention. Honestly though, it does also get extremely tiresome having to refute the same ol' outdated arguments for being against a Linux version. I also don't appreciate being treated like just some silly home Linux user who's deluding himself about the importance of Linux. My use-case for commercial Linux software is at a studio full of existing Linux desktops already running lots of other commercial Linux multimedia and graphics applications. Adding 40-50 licenses of Affinity Photo to those Linux desktops would be fantastic for us. The Linux users in the VFX industry may represent a small number of global users compared to all the Microsoft Solitaire players on Windows, but we are BIG SPENDERS. If you don't believe me, just ask any other software developer who caters to our industry. They'll probably tell you that you'd be crazy to not release a Linux version.

Hey all. Expressing anti-Linux sentiment in a thread talking about the desire for Linux versions is the epitome of internet trolling. Don't give the trolls the attention they want. Best way to deal with internet trolls: IGNORE them. Do not engage. They're not adding anything valuable to this conversation. Lets move on, please. Also, pro tip: click on your profile name at the top right to open a pulldown menu, then click "ignored users" and enter the username of someone that you don't want to see anymore. As per attached image:

We should continue to make it known that we want it for as long as we still want it. It requires almost no effort to re-iterate our desire ad-infinitum. The rest is out of our hands and no amount of bitching, whining or insulting comments from anybody in this forum will change that. You're obviously tired of waiting, and that's ok. It's understandable. Perhaps you should move on, then. In fact, please do. Unless you can contribute something of any usefulness to the discussion without being so belligerent all the time, it might be better if you unsubscribe from this thread.

That statement does not seem true to me and certainly not fair to Serif. It's perfectly reasonable for them to be extremely cautious in their decision-making with regard to possibly developing for another platform and then having to support it. It would also be perfectly reasonable for them to say they won't make a Linux version because they simply don't want to. That's their prerogative. All we can do is continue to make it known that we want it and are willing to pay for it.

It has nothing to do with being finicky. Anything we install for our users, we then have to SUPPORT. If we have trouble with the software, how much help can we expect to receive from Affinity when we tell them that we're running it in Wine on Linux? My experience tells me that most companies would reply with something like "sorry, we don't support running it that way. Please run it on Windows." We pay for software because we want the official support that comes along with it. The official support is valuable to us.

I'm one of those people who's willing to pay more a Linux version and buy enough copies for everyone at a small VFX studio. However, I would not buy any if it means I have to run it under Wine. I'd pay only only for a proper Linux version for these users. It would be a mistake to count "wine users" as a good metric to go by in order to determine market potential. There are many more of us who would not be represented in those numbers.

That is definitely not always true. A bit off-topic, maybe, but there are often several things that contribute to a company's failure. Creating a good product does not guarantee success. Businesses should focus on creating customers, whatever that means.

You continue to be very disrespectful. Insulting people doesn't help your argument.

Ok. So, how many unique users posting in this thread would it take to justify development of just one of the apps on a new OS?

I'm not sure that all of the arguments in this thread are quite so legitimate or well-articulated. It's a pretty mixed bag. 😀

I use appimages for some applications. I install an appimage on a network share and create a symlink that is used to launch it. Everyone in the studio has access to it. Then when I want to upgrade, I simply download the latest appimage, relink to the new version and boom... everybody in the studio now has instant access to the latest version of the software. Takes 2 minutes. Flatpak is ok, but requires more management.

I'm not a huge snap fan either, but I understand that snapd runs applications in a sandbox to prevent access to outside resources. This is by design for security reasons, and it is somewhat configurable. It should be super-simple to bind mount any path into your home in order to make it accessible to the application. Looks like they also provide binary releases in the form of flatpak or appimage. Perhaps the appimage would be more your style.

I'm Canadian, and I'm very well aware of how offensive the word can be. That said, I would still think it's horrible name even if people weren't offended by it. There's nothing offensive about the name Affinity. 😉

No matter how hard I've tried for a very long time now, I cannot convince artists to use Gimp. They don't like it. They don't want it. I'm tired of acting like an ambassador for a product that does not satisfy our users and is also not showing any signs of eventually evolving into the product that they want. Gimp is no competition for Affinity Photo and, in my opinion, would pose no threat to sales of good quality commercial software alternatives. This is coming from a long-time Linux user and proponent of free open-source software. Affinity Photo's biggest threat would be a Linux version of Photoshop. If Adobe releases Photoshop for Linux before Affinity, then it's pretty much game over. If, however, Affinity takes hold in the Linux market before that happens, then they'd be in a good position to profit in that space.

We're going a little off-topic. We should try to keep this discussion about Affinity products on Linux. Talking about Gimp or others seems ok as it relates to the main topic of discussion, but lets try to remember that this isn't a Gimp forum.