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NeoFinder is not available for Windows. Like it or not any program like this needs to run on both Mac and Windows.

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Hehe, searching "every catalog file" whose "Kind is not Folder", I get 3,000,458 items as a result… It takes a while and some happily spinning beachball to list them, but eventually they appear. It's not just assets though, I'm also cataloging discs and disks, some bootable disks even including hidden system files. 2000 catalogs in total. 

I am sure they will continue to work on photo, designer and publisher.
However, a DAM is essential for most photographers. It is also essential for designers and publishers.
This is why Adobe did Bridge.   I think Affinity could do one as well. IT is not just tying the apps together as they do that already but the assets.
If you don't want it, then don't buy it.
However, Lightroom is a photo cataloguing system which is a specific DAM. The mapping and web galleries sections are very useful.
There is nothing else like Lightroom out there.   Some one mentioned AcDsee but that has a DAM capability as a small part of the app.
As Affinity has Photo they could use that as the editor.  However, as others have said, Affinity needs to improve its RAW converter, which helps everyone.
Again, if you don't want it don't buy it.
Affinity have said they won't do an HTML/Web program which is fair enough.  I doubt they will do a video or audio program, but a DAM is an essential but missing part of the suite they haver.
 
 

Nope not at all, you are simply being pedantic and not listening to what people are asking for, I want Serif to complete the suite of apps (that 5 years ago they said they would do).  I don't want a LR clone, I want develop module with a DAM, that conforms to Affinity standards, not Adobe's standards...
In fact I am back to LR and PS.  I will no longer use AP because it is not integrated with LR like PS is

I would suggest Affinity Catalogue.  Ie a DAM.  This would be the primary use. They won't be able to compete with Dxo on RAW converters etc as DXO are/were a lens calibration lab. Their raw converter and lens correction is better than Adobe.   However their DAM is poor (but slowly improving)
If Affinity did a decent Catalogue program that would Catalogue, print, produce web galleries and had a map that could interface to A Photo and others like Dxo (as Lightroom does)  it would have a huge market.
There are thousands of photographers still on Lightroom 6.14 the last standalone perpetual licence version who would jump to any decent Catalogue program from Affinity.

Recently (November 2023) in another place, a video editor was giving his reasons to come off Adobe Sw.  Various replacements were suggested, including Affinity, for the usual apps and reasons. (also Resolve for Video Editing)
The ONLY thing people can't find a good replacement for is Lightroom. 
Lightroom is a photo-management tool.   A catalogue system.   If Serif do a photo-catalouge system that works with Photo it would be a winner.  Many , like me are still on Lightroom 6.14 which was the last stand alone perpetual licence before CC. Certainly, all the world's photo-journalists love Lightroom.
 

I can only speak anecdotally. I work in print, wide format and signage. Everyone uses this software. From design houses to the print shops themselves. In the days of old it was always a gamble on what file type you would received and more so if you could even open it for editing or working on it. In a world where people work collaboratively, being on the same software version is huge. Also the use of AI now in Photoshop and Illustrator is HUGE. I use it daily and they are massive time savers. 
That being said, I have never had issues with PDF files created in Affinity. I can't say the same for Corel, Canva or other graphic apps people use that are more budget friendly. If pro's don't want to pay the money that is their choice, I wonder what their margins are like and if working too cheap... could be what the market can bare in their area. For what we do, and we have multiple users with Adobe CC, the price is covered easily with lots of profit to spare. 

Why won't Adobe listen to customer needs and develop a non-subscription version of its software?
 

You completely miss the point.
What is the licence for a Linux Distribution?

I use Lightroom for cataloguing and either Lightroom or Dxo Photo Lab for conversion.
I don't use Affinity Photo for RAW conversion.,

I don't disagree, but it has to be seamless, it cannot be a clone of Photoshop and Bridge...

None of which are anywhere near Lightroom for cataloguing. They are slowly improving that aspect but... 
For one thing none of them have the mapping section nor the web gallery generation AFAIK
Photo Supreme looks interesting. You are right that Photo won't replace Lightroom in the same way Photoshop and Bridge don't.

Are you implying that Serif can't buy them and get their technology anytime they want???
 

I can drag and drop it as an hif file into Photo and it opens,  To open it by "file->open"  or "file->place"  I have to rename it to .heic

I said there were over a thousand Linux distributions.    I know a dozen that are not listed on the Linux family charts.   I also recall seeing a list 500 obsolete and unsupported Linux distributions.  
When Linux first started, every man and his dog was doing Linux distributions.  Some for things like the 8** series PPC parts. Though these were somewhat re-engineered.
Resolve had its own Linux (that only worked with its own hardware)   The problem depending how you build it with which versions of which libraries and which apps and drivers, often no two are the same.  

I did have the inside track on one company that puts its app onto a Linux host.  They also have hardware to debug a target running Linux. They automatically add 10% to the list price for anyone targeting Linux if they are a new customer. Simply to cover the additional support they will have to give. 
It simply isn't worth Serif supporting Linux, the market is too small and too fragmented.
 

Basically there are three base distributions, Slackware, Debian and Red Hat, the rest of the GNU/Linux distros are variants. All variants of its mother distro share the code base, include some customizations, but are completely compatible.
So there are not thousands of different systems as you say.

Where did I said thousends? - But much more than enough distros at all ...
Comparison of Linux distributions Why Does Linux Have So Many Distributions? Which are the most popular Linux distros? Linux Betriebssysteme - eine Übersicht Der c't–Linux-Netzplan: So finden Sie die passende Distribution ... etc.

I already know all that, so that's nothing unknown or new to me. Further as being someone who worked several years for NeXT's german subsidiary and thus also programmed a lot for NeXT systems in the pasts, I know pretty well most about the former times NeXTstep/OpenStep & WebObjects systems, also the later Apple's OSX origins which were entirely based on NeXTstep's former ecosystem. - But that's all yesterday's snow.
That's right, and every now and then another new one appears on the scene. As if there weren't enough of them already. - And which is also the reason why I'm peronally not that much interested in Linux nowadays, as it's too crowded with different systems so that one can easily loose the overview.
Serif has certainly weighed all this up for a long time and has therefore expressly/probably decided internally not to offer/make a Linux implementation. However, it's up to Serif to decide whether it makes sense for them or not. - Personally, I don't think it makes much sense, and looking at the current state of their software, they would be better off using their resources on the things they already offer, as there is still plenty of work for them to do.
 

I see you don't understand the problem.
I don't have the inclination to spend time educating you.

I have seen that mentioned before in the forum but what I meant by typo (since corrected) was he wrote V2 when he meant V1.
That said, since the V2 apps can share across all 3 apps via linking some resources like brushes, assets, & so on, in practice V2 can require substantially less disk space, not for the app itself but for those shared items.

1 There is no "normal"  Some programs upgrade the app that is there and over write. Some install a new version that runs beside the original.  Many, like Affinity will update the version X.*  with sub versions but when the get to version Y.0 they install a new version beside the Version X.*
2 It is not "normal" for files to be backwards compatible.  Sometimes they are and some times not. Often when new features are added to a program the file formats they save change and they are not open-able by a previous version. Though the latest version will open the old versions. Sometimes they may even let you save in older formats. Affinity does not.

Points 1 and 2 have been true for as long as I have been using and writing software  IE over 45 years.

With Affinity they update the app with minor versions but install a new app on major version changes. This is quite common with many apps.  So Version X.1 will be updated to VersionX.1  but when it gets to Version Y.0 it will install a new version beside Version X.*
With Affinity  V2 it installs a new App beside V1 because the V2 files have a different format and can not be opened by V1 apps.  When you open your V1 files in V2 it will save them as V2 and you can't open them in V1 any more.   

So the question is: Are you working with people still using Affinity V1?  If not you can delete the V1 Apps.  I did.
Especially as the V2 Affinity are a LOT smaller than the V1 apps. You will reclaim a lot of HDD space.
 
 
 

Excellent. Any chance we'll be getting a new series of Workbooks? I really need some new book smell in my life. 

Hi Colin, sorry to hear you feel that way—as far as I'm aware, however, you can watch YouTube videos without needing to create an account or sign in. The videos are all demonetised so there are no adverts that will encroach on the content.

I can watch the Affinity V2 videos on YouTube without signing in.

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