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I'm now almost three years on Linux. I have no plans to move back to macOS, and certainly not to Windows. At the moment, I'm getting by with Glimpse for Photo editing and Gravit for vector graphics. Both for which I pay (£75/year for Gravit and $10/month for Glimpse). At the time, I also paid for Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, on both macOS and Windows. I really wouldn't mind paying for it again to get it on Linux. I would even pay for to get a working version of the apps on Wine.
I know Serif isn't keen on to releasing a Linux version. But a bit of support to get it working on Wine would be very welcome.

+1 for this feature
 
Is there any chance to get this option in 1.XX version of Designer or are there any plans to include mesh/freeform gradient tool in the next big release?

Done for Photo. Though there doesn't seem to be an entry for any recent versions of Designer.

You can understand why even today why some people prefer to use the old Adobe Photoshop CS2 + Wine rather than use Gimp (hence the logical desire for Affinity Photo).
That said, have you tried out any of Krita/Pixeluvo/PencilSheep/Fotoxx depending upon your requirements? All of those softwares are available either from the Ubuntu app store (the first three) or Synaptic Package Manager (the last one).

I ran into a situation where I had to use GIMP today, and...
...oh GAWD!

I switched completely from MacOS to Linux 2 years ago. My reason was, that the hardware becomes more and more buggy (for such expensive hardware);
(and more critical for me) the OS drops more and more open standards and try to engage a more strict proprietary ecosystem...
Me as developer and designer is important to have a system that is fast, secure and customizable.
But what I saw, that the quality of the OS becomes really bad after Steve Jobs dies - the new focus was only on mobile business (which brings the most profit for Apple);
so they only put effort into iOS, but not on MacOS    

I think this is the reason why they push their own silicon and will move iPadOS to Macs in near future.
This means, you have to install apps ONLY by app store which dictates the prices and can choose what apps will run on your Mac

I really love to use Linux as my daily friend. It is so much easier to use nowadays;
but the big players still did not migrate their tools to Linux (yet)

Hope Serif and Adobe migrate their tools soon - MacOS becomes more and more less important to the market (now 3rd place of OS market share) and Linux is growing fast also in private sector... 

I started out with Windows, and switched to macOS, and now looking to switch to Linux for life. Haven't switch yet, but preparing and making plans to. I really like macOS but I have a feeling they will go evil in the future, so I’m jumping ship. Blender and Krita, two big apps for me and Linux supports it. Only Affinity is missing. Was hoping that I could use it via Wine or Crossover, but from what I'm reading on here it doesn't work.
Right now I got all three Affinity apps for macOS, but looks like I will have to get the Windows versions for 2.0 when it’s out and dual boot it. OR keep my macbook and use it for Affinity. Tough choice...

I am waiting Affinity 😍 for Linux 😍

I would love a Linux version of Affinity apps, or a version of Wine that could load them. I am far too technologically promiscuous to say I would commit to Linux, but if I could reduce my reliance on macOS/Windows it would be a step in the right direction.
But one of the reasons that this is so hard is that unlike with office document formats, there are really no standard formats for graphic source files. I know there are image file formats, but source file formats used by design applications are not readily transferable between suites. I guess a .psd file is as close as it gets, may be .svg for vectors, but certainly not much that is transferable for page layout. It amuses me that the reason we have fairly standard office file formats is actually the market dominance of Microsoft. On the face of it, very un-Linux. That Libreoffice and other office suites can hitch a ride (dare I say it?) on these ubiquitous formats means that Linux is now very viable, if these office apps are all you need. Not so graphic design. What chance Affinity file formats becoming open enough to be imported/exported by other software? Not great I guess.

Use the Export Persona, slices will be created for each artboard. By default PNG is selected as the file type to export to so you will need to change the file type to jpeg for each artboard.

https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/Artboards/artboards_export.html
https://affinity.help/designer/English.lproj/pages/ExportPersona/exportPersona.html

I'm now almost three years on Linux. I have no plans to move back to macOS, and certainly not to Windows. At the moment, I'm getting by with Glimpse for Photo editing and Gravit for vector graphics. Both for which I pay (£75/year for Gravit and $10/month for Glimpse). At the time, I also paid for Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, on both macOS and Windows. I really wouldn't mind paying for it again to get it on Linux. I would even pay for to get a working version of the apps on Wine.
I know Serif isn't keen on to releasing a Linux version. But a bit of support to get it working on Wine would be very welcome.

I'm now almost three years on Linux. I have no plans to move back to macOS, and certainly not to Windows. At the moment, I'm getting by with Glimpse for Photo editing and Gravit for vector graphics. Both for which I pay (£75/year for Gravit and $10/month for Glimpse). At the time, I also paid for Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, on both macOS and Windows. I really wouldn't mind paying for it again to get it on Linux. I would even pay for to get a working version of the apps on Wine.
I know Serif isn't keen on to releasing a Linux version. But a bit of support to get it working on Wine would be very welcome.

I'm now almost three years on Linux. I have no plans to move back to macOS, and certainly not to Windows. At the moment, I'm getting by with Glimpse for Photo editing and Gravit for vector graphics. Both for which I pay (£75/year for Gravit and $10/month for Glimpse). At the time, I also paid for Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, on both macOS and Windows. I really wouldn't mind paying for it again to get it on Linux. I would even pay for to get a working version of the apps on Wine.
I know Serif isn't keen on to releasing a Linux version. But a bit of support to get it working on Wine would be very welcome.

I'm now almost three years on Linux. I have no plans to move back to macOS, and certainly not to Windows. At the moment, I'm getting by with Glimpse for Photo editing and Gravit for vector graphics. Both for which I pay (£75/year for Gravit and $10/month for Glimpse). At the time, I also paid for Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher, on both macOS and Windows. I really wouldn't mind paying for it again to get it on Linux. I would even pay for to get a working version of the apps on Wine.
I know Serif isn't keen on to releasing a Linux version. But a bit of support to get it working on Wine would be very welcome.

Hi, im linux-windows user, but i use windows mostly for desing, i'll be very happy if Affinity apps running on Linux

I'm a professional designer who uses Linux. I would purchase Affinity products if they supported Linux, or even just made their apps work in Wine. Blender, Maya, DaVinci Resolve, Gravit Designer... All are great graphics tools and run on Linux. GIMP, Inkscape, and Scribus are all pretty good, but if Affinity offered theirs, I would switch.

Affinity could detect Wine and see how many people actually run it on Linux.
With those non-speculative statistics, they can decide whether or not it's worth it to develop a native Linux version.
Remind me, did someone from the Affinity staff address the idea of getting it running on Wine? I remember years ago they rejected the idea because they don't want a slow and bad user experience, but as people have since pointed out, Wine (and sometimes Proton) cause apps to run at near native speed. Sometimes (in the case of Vulkan) even faster than their native Windows counterparts. Has someone from Affinity addressed the idea of working towards Wine compatibility, now that they have a correct idea of what Wine performance is like?
I mean, Affinity, are you still reading this? Look at a recent benchmark.

Graphic design is currently the main reason for my Windows partition. Inkscape/Gimp/Krita are pretty capable and good enough for many jobs, but Affinity running on Linux be amazing.

I'm currently a Mac user, I'm developing my plan to move to Linux.  I'd like to not have to run windows virtually to run 'some programs'.  I have a license for Photo and Designer, I would love to be able to use a port of these great products to Linux.  I don't mind paying for software or services that are of value.  I'd even pay a premium to see affinity software on Linux, but obviously would prefer not too.   
I think there are forces pushing people out of Mac and Windows so having the choice of using great paid for software on Linux might be a good move for any software firm.  
For what it's worth I hope Affinity considers this avenue.
 

I recently switched over to Linux elementary OS. It's such a game-changer, it's hard for me to turn back. I even sacrificed my Windows programs to run alternate software as a single-boot system. Virtualization is a pain and an Affinity port would be VERY welcome. At least have the software run as an AppImage (it runs universally on all distros - more info here). Rizom UV, a 3d texture mapper, has now Linux support when it has always been primarily Windows software and it uses AppImage. For Affinity, this would be a good option to reduce overhead.
Linux FTW - it's the future!

Yes, I'm also waiting for blend tool, because without it the transition to AD is simply impossible.

I really need something similar to Illustrator's "Blend" tool where you can have 2 vector options, make a blend, and they set the number of steps and some other properties used to create the individual steps in-between.
 
I don't see anything like this in Affinity Designer, am I just missing something?
 
Thanks.

Stop and think! Imagine a user looking forward to Affinty for Linux! That's me! lololol
 
Macs are getting very expensive here in Brazil, another OS that designers look at from afar is Linux! Many users! Adobe does not seem to want to produce for linux, if Affinity wants to reach everyone who is migrating and current users. Dreams.
 

+1
 
It would be a welcome addition.