[No .exe, no interest]

5 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

And

No, do not buy

Windows 10 & Windows 11 are the only supported operating system for Affinity V2 on Windows. 

The MSI/EXE install will not be aimed at LTSC OS either, sorry.

Errrm - Looking at the Microsoft page they say this about LTSC - so please explain why the MSI would not install?
 

The following table summarizes equivalent feature update versions of Windows 10 LTSC and General Availability Channel (GA Channel) releases.

LTSC release	Equivalent GA Channel release	Availability date
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2015	Windows 10, Version 1507	7/29/2015
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2016	Windows 10, Version 1607	8/2/2016
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019	Windows 10, Version 1809	11/13/2018
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021	Windows 10, Version 21H2	11/16/2021

[Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program]

On 11/14/2022 at 3:30 PM, Mark Ingram said:

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed.

We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long.

Thanks for your feedback!

Happy to purchase now we have confirmation there will be an MSI Installer - thanks for listening to the user base.

 

[Installation provides no choice of drive]

2 hours ago, John Rostron said:

Did you do this?

To move the App:

Settings  > Apps, then select the V2 App, and click on Move.

I should point out that the apps are still hidden, albeit on a different drive.

John

Move fails for me (and a good number of other people).

[Installation provides no choice of drive]

18 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

They probably won't. They've invested a fair amount of development time implementing and testing this support.

As it works easily if you just unzip the msix file it won't take them much time to repackage it.

[Chosing custom installation path with msix file]

1 hour ago, noonlight said:

I can't seem to find an option to chose an installation path for Photo 2 in the msix installation app.
I have all my working apps on a separate partition to keep the system drive clean. How do I do that with Photo v2?

You cannot now choose your installation directory.
There are documented solutions - that for me do not work.

Not going to purchase while they treat us like children and do not allow us to choose an installation location on our own machines.

[Photo 2 installation directory??]

22 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You can do that. You just can't control the exact path.

You can Move the installed application to a different drive. Settings > Apps & Features, select app, Move.

Or you can tell Windows to install new applications on a different drive. Settings > System > Storage, then change the location (drive) for installing new content.

For me setting the new location for application installs failed - its set to my application drive but still insists on installing to my system drive.

Moving also fails for me - I just get a 0x80073cf6 error and a message to try later.

Happy to sit this out - software uninstalled while I wait for a more traditional installer.

[MSIX installator for Windows]

I have also just removed the software because of this stupid install system - I even tried both suggested fixes which failed for me.

Software now removed until we get a proper installer.

[No control about HD space with MSIX package]

Setting the location within Settings > System > Storage > More / Advanced Storage Settings > Change where new content is saved did not stop the application being installed on my system drive, and the move option fails with an error 0x80073cf6

I am voting with my feet and will not purchase this software until you fix the issue - I do not want software telling me where it should reside.