sinvictas

It also must be said that Serif sacrifices a lot of income that way. Since a linux version simply would create a market and put them on the throne. There are thousands which only stick with Windows due to the lack of an equivalent software for professional photography purposes on linux. I always went for the GNU > commercial path as long I can get the jobs done. And often there are GNU applications working better than commercial ones. Before I abandoned Adobe completly and swapped to Affinity I went for inkscape instead of illustrator and scribus instead of indesign. So I am rather independent on the graphic design and layouting side since it works just fine. There are trillion of brilliant GNU programs for linux available. But as long GIMP can't compete with professional photo software and is targeted to hobby users there's no way to go with it. Being a professional photographer with studio, I'm dependent on a quick workflow and specific features which so far only Affinity Photo, Photoshop and partly CorelPhoto can offer (not even to mention the superior experience that the whole affinity suite offers). I tried basically everything. And it is incredibly annoying to have mixed setups in the studio for specific purposes only because there's no way to swap over completely even after decades because of ONE necessary peice. And since Affinity simply is the best on the market (sorry adobe, but you threw it away) it would be more than pleasant if that peice could be affinity. I know at least 10 professional photographers which would swap to linux instantly once there's EITHER affinity OR photoshop available no matter the costs.. and shouldn't be the priority target the photographers? Serif, if you wont make a native linux port, so please push coorperation for the wine developement, since it's even on #2 of the most desired software.