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Additionally: it's marketing. No matter if it succeeds or not, running this Kickstarter campaign would be something you can let the press talk about. Therefore you could book the efforts of running the Kickstarter campaign under a marketing budget. In either case (success or not), your name will be in the press about potentially bringing your product(s) to Linux, raising more awareness to your brand - even people who don't need a Linux version and therefore would not be interested in the Kickstarter campaign would still hear about it and get to know Affinity. (Although, from a strategical standpoint, that would likely make more sense in a few months, since now you are already in the press with release of version 2.)

Tried that as well, didn't work 😢 (Same with Win10).

That comparison isn't exactly fair, because on Windows and Mac Affinity has heavy competition (Adobe, Corel, ...). On Linux it would basically be the first and only professional design/photo suite. Also number of users doesn't equal number of willing-to-pay users. At least in terms of games (see statistics on HumbleBundle) linux users aren't exactly cheap skates.

I tried the lutris install script and it works so far, that the installer does not complain about missing .NET framework (well, and that it shows a dialog in the first place). However, it complains what "no supported windows version found". Which I don't understand, because the wine bottle is set to Windows 10. Windows 7 and 8.1 don't work either. I have no idea what the installer is looking for. Did anyone encounter that problem and/or has an idea how to solve it?