[Affinity products for Linux]

9 hours ago, Copy said:

I'm following this thread because I want to get updates on running Affinity products on Linux.
I was happy to see Affinity engineers responding hoping one day we could have a fully function Affinity suite on Linux - even if it'll never be officially supported.

I really appreciate more people commenting, saying they'd love to have a Linux version.
But can you all please stop with the useless discussions on how (un)popular Linux is and whether an official port would be economical?

Sorry but nobody cares and important replys like the bottle example and the deprecated function call just go down in this whole mess.
Is there any other thread, maybe on a different forum or a discord server, which is not such a huge mess?
Otherwise I'd really appreciate a moderated thread where people who actually know what they're doing (i.e. not me) and maybe even occasionally Affinity engineers can exchange about their findings on how to get things running under Wine - then it also wouldn't take like 10 minutes to find the reply with the kinda working bottle config.

My words, totally right! Priority in solving the flickering problem instead of OS fighting would help tremendously.

Sadly I'm also no help, but following this thread for valuable posts. However it does not help this countless chitchat about market share, why serif not, other companies,... you count it.

But as pointed before, this post also has no value in solving the problem, I just wanted to highlight your words

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It works! Of course its not perfect, the viewport flickering is a little distracting, but I'm in no position to blame the development until now. Maybe there is a way/setting to make things smoother.

Also I have some difficulties saving files (Missing permission) and opening it in the OS 😅 Research time and here

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I need to try this once I'm at work! 1stn00b answer should get pinned.

We all know that affinity is not officially supporting Linux, but maybe this explanation would reduce also Support time 😂 

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Still can't wait to have a working solution. Bottle looks promising!

As a Web Developer i really miss nothing in Linux, just the ease of affinity programs for making the graphics 😅

Btw why there are ppl against the port? Does it hurt to have more options? It must be a market, or else nobody would invest in it, even Microsoft wouldn't do. I remember most people, me included, were feared to go Linux because #1 missing Game Support and #2 missing enterprise software. #1 is tackled by valve ❤️ #2 looking to serif. When this done, having the freedom to choose the OS not bound to it's 3rd party software is a nice thing! Why the counter words 😅

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I freshly switch from windows to Linux. I miss nothing but my affinity programs..

I read about 500.000€ serif needs to build a Linux version, where is the button to pledge? Only money makes decisions for directions, right?

Why here goes all with market share, Linux devices and so on, it will not change the goal of getting affinitys to Linux if suddenly one person is in right. Money has a much stronger word.

We have now 2022, I found a post from 2014, something must be done or it will never happen