Pufty

I had this a while before actually when I tried getting it to work with wine. It looked extremely hopeful when everything from the installer to the download folder and shortcut worked correctly, but launching it never worked. You would see the splash screen and nothing else. So in other news I'm seeing that Adobe products are getting easier to get working on Linux now?

Happy new year. Has serif said anything at all about Linux recently?

Sure. Happens that everybody makes software with bugs, but the issues Could be the same across platforms the same way it could be potentially harming to development... Windows is just everywhere. Your grandma won't be a designer, but she uses windows. Majority will go with the majority and it'll stay that way until something changes, but stagnation is the name of the game. Yes, totally why not follow Adobe's steps in it's dominant market and not release on Linux because they haven't. As scary it may be with how linux stifles development, it's also a curveball to following what adobe is doing. The blender point was weird, because you show a page of current donors with big names. Yeah, they joined Blender after blender made a name for themselves. People funded it's growth. But the potentially harmful part is why I gotta say - Fine, I'll come back in a year. I'll try other programs, I'll find a way, but I'm hoping by that time I haven't found something that solves my issue, so I have a reason to come back. I'd still like to stick it to adobe and not be the little coward that crawled back to them

It's going in circles with the 1%. That's understandable, but doesn't stop me from asking. I'll get back in a year to see if the No has shifted, because that answer was given way back in the past. Of course it's now buried in 75 pages of excuses why Not. This is pretty much an outlet for anyone bored. I'll use the chance at work when bored, but I Have to unfollow the topic... It's spam mail at this point.

I don't think I'm being misleading. Sure, take the 1 thing and apply it everywhere, but 'works fine' is pretty accurate. I didn't run into any issues. Your doom and gloom is what I would call misleading when I had considered switching to linux years back and I would constantly read how it's unstable, hardcore etc.

Point taken. At home will try my laptop's cam by curiosity. It just ain't doom and gloom either. I was expecting 'doomsday' when I made the switch, thinking that I'm going to sacrifice all that I hold dear. And the industry can be (soft version) silly sometimes. I CUT the fat with adobe by going Affinity + Davinci to sate my needs, but Office? The Libre thing works fine. Worked from home handling excel sheets and had no trouble on day 1 of using the alternatives. Looks a bit different, but everything's there... Nothing else other than Affinity comes to mind when I gotta ask myself of what I'm missing.

Now try windows. All flavours of driver reinstalls, forced updates, unremovable programs and unresponsive programs for days. Windows would be dead today if it wasn't for Task manager. Meanwhile on Linux it's been a damn pleasant surprise. So much "it's difficult" and "don't use it" kept me away for so long and that hurt my experience more by staying with windows than actually going through with the switch. Gotta be some paleolithic linux version you're using if you're having issues today. I've tried a couple and it's just plug and play. Literally kept around some USB drives and got bunch of different distributions or flavors on them.

Have you tried it?

This does sound like the Linux stereotypical environment and that no mortal should attempt this if they value their sanity, but here I am saying that it's been easy so far for me. Trust me, I'm as 'consumer' as they come.

So why commercial paid? A lot of commercial products can be overpriced and both mentioned programs are really capable free programs. Blender is free, but I'm part of their development fund and Davinci Resolve is a future purchase. I like to pay for capable software, but it almost sounds like you'd like just about any level of software to be paid for. Reminds me of how apple released a very cheap monitor stand for your important monitor standing purposes. Also, isn't wanting the software to be bought on Linux the whole point of this topic? I can still not pay and virtually/remotely use the software I already own for windows through Linux, but I like to own a snappy and respectable program. Still if nothing comes of it, I can go back to adobe and try that monthly overpay mess again.

Some guy said about naming a few programs on Linux and I could add that Blender works as expected. Davinci Resolve works with one caveat being video codecs. Those are the ones I NEEDED to make my switch and they work. All that's left is Affinity and I've got a flexible creative space. Basic things like VS Code, all the office programs and anything else I need had replacements that worked fine too. Is it common to think that many programs won't run on Linux?

Too bad that more keep switching then, I guess. Have you tried Linux, because I'm pleasantly surprised that it's easy. IDK anything about 2 decades of linux desktop, but recently tried it and it's a pretty honest sell.

Not painting much, but I have used it before and will try again. Found it useful to do textures or 'abstract' background art

And I mean it would be time consuming. I'm still interested in Affinity on Linux, am I not? I share a similar sentiment, I'm just assuming I'm much more uncaring for sacrifice. I held roughly the same perspective from OS to program. I still would be interested in "Affinity products for Linux" and have a sneaking suspicion that more and more people will jump ship with Windows as Linux has gotten friendlier for new users. I already probably mentioned how I am super inexperienced in the whole Linux command console scene, yet here I am... Already used to using Linux daily for almost everything I need and developing user habits. I'll be here, contributing to the discussion towards supporting Affinity on Linux even if I decide to quit using it, use it through compatibility layers or only at work. I'll still be FOR Affinity on Linux, instead of against. At least that's the impression I'm getting from you

I use the OS every day. I know I use it, because it has simple use cases we take for granted. For example, you've likely forgotten how often you just Ctrl+Alt+Delete into a Task Manager or Alt+Tab Tab Tab to the next window or hitting the windows key and immediately typing what you want to find. They are windows things that become a habit. I have already noticed that I try to Swing my mouse cursor to the left top of the screen... On the windows work computer (on Linux Gnome it brings an overview of all opened apps and workspaces). Still using windows at work every day, but it's been eating my brains out for a year now and the fact that it's so incorporated in every-day application use is scary, because I have to admit that I'm still being dependent on it... When I hate it. On Linux my creative work load consists of Blender, Davinci Resolve and would be Affinity, then there's the other load consisting of VS Code - Web Designer. So not always using Design Apps, but still a Designer. I also make use of Computer hardware for playing games. Blender and Affinity are 30% incorporated in my daily work, the rest are creative hobbies and starting to freelance. I'm no big shot painter who ONLY uses ancient elephant tooth-fiber hair for their work or else they may not get the perfect stroke, so I can live without Affinity. Like I lived without Adobe for a while until stumbling upon Affinity. I just don't want to switch again and don't want to wrestle the damn windows updates anymore for some better FPS and render times. I'm limited, which brings me to your 2nd line. 60 Is a lot for me and the cancellation fee with adobe was GOD DAMN 360 EUROS when I couldn't pay the 60! Damn hated adobe for that. Pay was irregular, no freelance jobs at the time, 60 was a month of food. Pay is better now, but I'm still living in low standards, so I have to keep my spending in check. I can afford to pay adobe the 60, but then I'm trapped again. One person and three programs. I mostly end up opening one program a day, but I find use in all three over the month, so it's not ideal or good enough to go back.