Moonpie

I guess I would be really "head in the clouds" to think that "one more thing" could be true cross platform and therefore Linux support? I am trying real hard not to get my hopes up.

I own all three Affinity products. I bought them to support a company producing quality products at a reasonable price. I don't use them though (short of experimenting to see what they do and how they do it) as they aren't available for Linux. My purchase was effectively a donation. Other software I have bought for Linux over the years: Bitwig Studio Renoise Harrison Mixbus u-he ACE u-he Bazille u-he Hive 2 Sublime Text Indigo Renderer Substance Designer (I choose to no longer support now that Adobe has purchased despite being very powerful) Substance Painter (I choose to no longer support now that Adobe has purchased despite being very powerful) myBase All of these programs I bought directly from the vendor's own websites. Generally I see commercial software for Linux delivered under one of two schemes: We don't offer support for Linux platforms We only offer support when used with X distribution I think most Linux users either stick to the X (which is generally Ubuntu-based, Suse, or Redhat) or assume they are on their own when it comes to dealing with any technical platform issues they may face. Personally I use Arch Linux and not one of the pieces of software I own is officially supported on my distro. That has never bothered me in any way. You simply cannot compare the Linux user-base to the Windows or Mac user-bases. Linux users are generally more tech-savvy or at the very least interested in the technical side of computing and are willing to solve their own problems. From a development standpoint I suggest that an earlier analogy in this thread that a staff member posited regarding this being like asking Disney to build a Disney World in Germany is quite simply false analogy as the scale of a bricks and mortar project of that size can hardly be compared to software development of any scale. With that out of the way I echo what many others have suggested and that is to use one of the crowd funding systems available to directly answer the "Is there a market?" question. Just make sure that all existing users are aware of it and that the Linux community at large is also aware of it. If the Affinity Suite was available for Linux natively I would purchase all three again and then dedicate the time to learning them properly not because they are necessarily better than the existing products available for Linux but because I like the tight integration and consistent interface concept between three closely related products.