SanJacobs

Yes! Fusion, Natron and Nuke, they're all proper industry tools, so they run on Linux, and it's great! I use those for compositing, but they all suck for motion graphics, which is where After Effects really shines IMO.

Yes, very true! I'd much rather that be the case, than people thinking they can trust metadata because some popular apps refuse to edit it.

I wouldn't ever want anything to even come close to touching my ability to edit the EXIF data or metadata of my files.

Add me to the list. I would buy all of Affinity's software if it available on Linux, but I'm not buying it until it is. Because as long as I'm stuck on Windows, I might as well use Adobe software. I don't care much about price. Whoever gets a quality vector graphic software and After Effects alternative to Linux first gets my money. I despise Windows and want to get out of this train-wreck of an OS as fast as possible. Nuke, the industry standard compositing software for film has been available on Linux for a long time. And when you talk to VFX industry-heads, that's what they'll tell you. Get used to Linux. It's stronger, more stable, more efficient, faster, more customizable, more secure, has better support offerings, as seen with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For all industry applications it is the OS of choice. I know design students with Macbooks may not be nerdy enough to want to use Affinity software on Linux on their own, but the industry-level people are. If Affinity wants to take it to Adobe, that's an easy way to beat them, and grab market-share where Adobe is completely missing out.