tominglis

One of the first posts in this thread in 2014 was from Affinity and it mentioned WINE: It's now 2020 and WINE is a much more sophisticated solution, especially because of the investment that Valve has made via Proton and projects like Vulkan / DXVK. There is also a Windows build of all three programmes (I presume the first builds were for macOS?) From another thread it looks like we are pretty close to having the Affinity programmes running on Linux via WINE. Would it now be easier for Serif to put one or two developers' time into making sure that their products run well on WINE, without committing to a full Linux port? That way they'd be supporting the community, but also would have an opportunity to see how many Linux users there were.

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.