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This is a lot of hassle expected from a user. If this depends on windows, then the fix would be to make this a normal program again. This can be done by serif.

Frankly I am disgusted.
Disgusted by people who get 40% off - nearly half price - from ALREADY VERY LOW price and STILL complaining because they didn't got extra special-VIP-mega-loyalty exclusive club discount 🤦🏼‍♂️.  We ALL got a discount. A big one.
I bought Affinity the day it came out on PC. I never needed Publisher (maybe for tables only) but I bought it to support Affinity because I LOVE working using it. Sure I complained here and there, I am not a fan of it become "windows app" but the software itself brings me joy. Often I don't feel like I am working - just having fun with what I do. Which I stopped feeling with Adobe products long time ago and I was happy to ditch them.
I still don't need Publisher and I don't have i-pad but I will be purchasing next week the one license for all the apps anyways. Its ridiculously good value. And great software worth supporting. While Adobe is adding bunch of gimmicky nonsense I am happy to see Affinity adds actually useful things. Lets see what V3 will bring us in few years. Meanwhile I will enjoy the ride.

Frankly I am disgusted.
Disgusted by people who get 40% off - nearly half price - from ALREADY VERY LOW price and STILL complaining because they didn't got extra special-VIP-mega-loyalty exclusive club discount 🤦🏼‍♂️.  We ALL got a discount. A big one.
I bought Affinity the day it came out on PC. I never needed Publisher (maybe for tables only) but I bought it to support Affinity because I LOVE working using it. Sure I complained here and there, I am not a fan of it become "windows app" but the software itself brings me joy. Often I don't feel like I am working - just having fun with what I do. Which I stopped feeling with Adobe products long time ago and I was happy to ditch them.
I still don't need Publisher and I don't have i-pad but I will be purchasing next week the one license for all the apps anyways. Its ridiculously good value. And great software worth supporting. While Adobe is adding bunch of gimmicky nonsense I am happy to see Affinity adds actually useful things. Lets see what V3 will bring us in few years. Meanwhile I will enjoy the ride.

I have the same problem: I can't switch a raw from Faststone to affinity 2.
This is a very big problem for my workflow.
I will now advise my club not to migrate to this version until we have an exe.
Is it possible to cancel this sale and get a refund?

I imagine there were maybe advantages to switching to the Microsoft App Installer (.msix files).
However, for the user, the problems have increased:
There are many who have problems being able to install the packages. For example, it took me hours because the packages from Serif did not run for me. Only after downloading them directly from the Microsoft Store was I able to install them.
The next problem is the integration of the new programs in others. Now you can't find an .exe file which is accepted by other programs.

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.

I got one question: WHY?!
Why this is not just normal program but windows "app"? What are the benefits? Because I can clearly see downsides. I cant connect it to other apps for start, I dont have control over files...
This whole windows apps is just as good as Games for Windows Live and I hope it will share its fate.
I can only think about piracy - maybe that helps somehow to fight it, but I am not a pirate, I am legal user that cant use my favorite app like I did before. PLEASE go back to normal way of installing. This only took away functionality of your software and you cant seriously demand that 3rd party software developers of countless apps will fix that for us because you decided to make it a windows app.

I got one question: WHY?!
Why this is not just normal program but windows "app"? What are the benefits? Because I can clearly see downsides. I cant connect it to other apps for start, I dont have control over files...
This whole windows apps is just as good as Games for Windows Live and I hope it will share its fate.
I can only think about piracy - maybe that helps somehow to fight it, but I am not a pirate, I am legal user that cant use my favorite app like I did before. PLEASE go back to normal way of installing. This only took away functionality of your software and you cant seriously demand that 3rd party software developers of countless apps will fix that for us because you decided to make it a windows app.

thank you stokerg,
this may help for the moment. But in general, why did you guys change the common installing procedure. 
Most users have had full control over their files and programs since windows Version 1.1 in the mid 80's. just because of Windows 10/11 there is no need to change the usual installation process. At least not in my eyes. . 
I cannot choose a designated path to this new Affinity V2. Which is really a pitty.
Hope there are more customers complaining and you'll go back to the usual common way to install Applications. Hope this shot is not backfired.
 
Cheers U.ke
 
PS: found this in some other reactions:  This is a stupid move by the developers. I own my PC, it is not a phone or a tablet and I want to control what goes on the PC and where it goes. I didn't spend time setting up partitions and drivers for fun. I have a particular drive for programs and that is where they go or they don't get installed - end of!

If you've purchased Affinity V2 for Windows directly from the Affinity Store, you will have downloaded an MSIX package. You will notice when installing Affinity V2 you will not be offered the ability to change the installation path. This is expected and is down to how MSIX packages work. All Windows Apps are installed to the default drive set in Settings > System > Storage.
There are two options to change where Affinity V2 is installed to:
Temporarily change "Where new content is saved" by going to Settings > System > Storage > More / Advanced Storage Settings > Change where new contact is saved and select the required drive from the New apps will save to: dropdown menu. Once you've installed the app to the new drive, you can revert this setting back to Local Disk (C:) 
  Move the app to a different drive once installed by going to Settings > Apps > Apps & Features selecting the Affinity App and clicking Move Please note: It's only possible to pick the drive where you want the app installed to but not the full location. Unfortunately, this is handled by Windows and cannot be changed by the user.

I moved to Affinity Designer the day it was released on PC. Never looked back.

After many years of using Adobe Illustrator I just dumped it to hell where it belongs with its clunkiness, sluggishness, absurdly minimal updates and unreliability. I rather use Affinity Designer that is absolute pleasure to work with, with less features, then have to curse every 10 minutes at the "industry standard". Some people like their little pocket knives with 100 tiny tools - I prefer solid knife with one, reliable blade. I made hundreds of commercial designs for many different products using Affinity Designer for the last 4 years. Labels, cloth designs, surfing boards designs... And for the last 4 years every now and then I read this whiny comments "oh no, how bad AD is, you need to charge more, you need to add function that I saw on some other app, I am so disappointed, blablabla".
Well I am not disappointed. I am extremely happy.
Do I miss some functions? Sure. Can I see space for improvement? Absolutely. In fact after I stop screaming here I will give devs idea for improvement
But I ditched software with 20+ years of development for that young AD because it simply works. Its not laggy mess that crashes at least twice a day like bloody Illustrator that I started literally to hate over the years. "Oh but you cant make something that other software can!". Well, other software couldn't do the most fundamental bloody thing for me - make my work a pleasure. AD did that for me. Same goes for Photoshop and Photo. I cant say much about Publisher because I am not using it save for adding tables   But I still bough it to support devs that made my work day a pleasure once more.
Keep up the good work ladies and gents! Negativity always is just a noise that leads to nowhere. I cant wait for 2.0! I put food on the table for my family for the last 4 years with your software. Using it daily. With pleasure. Thank you for that and lets keep it going, shall we?

Maybe I am missing something, but is there a way to limit these new functions so they work just for one, selected artboard?
If I want to select all text on the artboard I am working on and ALL text is selected across multiple artboards function becomes useless... I tried locking other artboards but it still is selecting elements across all of them. Whats more - you can even move elements selected in this way while artboard is technically locked. I tried turning on visibility of other artboards but this also didnt worked.
Long story short - if I am not missing anything - can you please make possible to use these new tools only in the active artboard? They work great on single page, but to use them with multiple artboards this is a must in my opinion.
Thanks for the great improvements in 1.9!

What's wrong with how they do that now? Most Affinity users, myself included, seem to think the Affinity customer support is excellent, much better than from some of the competition like Adobe.

... and if it's not introduced by the end of the year, that's a clear sign that Affinity is dead. They only have 82 days left.

I'm patiently waiting for the Game Boy Advance version of Affinity.

Seems like someone found that crystal ball.

It would sure surprise the h*ll out of us though 

Those were not the impatient ... those were the grumpy
But I guess your assumption is most likely right ... and knowing about state of development will not increase the speed ...

Or to say it cinematic:
 

A test file (it opens with some errors, but objects and gradients are present!):
gradients.psd
 
You can also import the GRD file in the online Photopea, apply them to shapes and export to SVG or save as PSD:



 
You can either export as SVG or PSD from Photopea (if the SVG look wrong and like a simple fill, you can see in that there's a gradient):

 

Maybe I am missing something, but is there a way to limit these new functions so they work just for one, selected artboard?
If I want to select all text on the artboard I am working on and ALL text is selected across multiple artboards function becomes useless... I tried locking other artboards but it still is selecting elements across all of them. Whats more - you can even move elements selected in this way while artboard is technically locked. I tried turning on visibility of other artboards but this also didnt worked.
Long story short - if I am not missing anything - can you please make possible to use these new tools only in the active artboard? They work great on single page, but to use them with multiple artboards this is a must in my opinion.
Thanks for the great improvements in 1.9!

I moved to Affinity Designer the day it was released on PC. Never looked back.

After many years of using Adobe Illustrator I just dumped it to hell where it belongs with its clunkiness, sluggishness, absurdly minimal updates and unreliability. I rather use Affinity Designer that is absolute pleasure to work with, with less features, then have to curse every 10 minutes at the "industry standard". Some people like their little pocket knives with 100 tiny tools - I prefer solid knife with one, reliable blade. I made hundreds of commercial designs for many different products using Affinity Designer for the last 4 years. Labels, cloth designs, surfing boards designs... And for the last 4 years every now and then I read this whiny comments "oh no, how bad AD is, you need to charge more, you need to add function that I saw on some other app, I am so disappointed, blablabla".
Well I am not disappointed. I am extremely happy.
Do I miss some functions? Sure. Can I see space for improvement? Absolutely. In fact after I stop screaming here I will give devs idea for improvement
But I ditched software with 20+ years of development for that young AD because it simply works. Its not laggy mess that crashes at least twice a day like bloody Illustrator that I started literally to hate over the years. "Oh but you cant make something that other software can!". Well, other software couldn't do the most fundamental bloody thing for me - make my work a pleasure. AD did that for me. Same goes for Photoshop and Photo. I cant say much about Publisher because I am not using it save for adding tables   But I still bough it to support devs that made my work day a pleasure once more.
Keep up the good work ladies and gents! Negativity always is just a noise that leads to nowhere. I cant wait for 2.0! I put food on the table for my family for the last 4 years with your software. Using it daily. With pleasure. Thank you for that and lets keep it going, shall we?

Maybe I am missing something, but is there a way to limit these new functions so they work just for one, selected artboard?
If I want to select all text on the artboard I am working on and ALL text is selected across multiple artboards function becomes useless... I tried locking other artboards but it still is selecting elements across all of them. Whats more - you can even move elements selected in this way while artboard is technically locked. I tried turning on visibility of other artboards but this also didnt worked.
Long story short - if I am not missing anything - can you please make possible to use these new tools only in the active artboard? They work great on single page, but to use them with multiple artboards this is a must in my opinion.
Thanks for the great improvements in 1.9!

I dont know how many times somebody wants to work on multiple artboards at the same time - I think it should work just for the active one. At least as default behavior.

And what clearly looks like a bug is that this functionality ignores locked artboards. The lock isn't working basically. We can feel safe after locking artboard and then delete part of it by accident.

I guess I will just post that in bug section then.

Maybe I am missing something, but is there a way to limit these new functions so they work just for one, selected artboard?
If I want to select all text on the artboard I am working on and ALL text is selected across multiple artboards function becomes useless... I tried locking other artboards but it still is selecting elements across all of them. Whats more - you can even move elements selected in this way while artboard is technically locked. I tried turning on visibility of other artboards but this also didnt worked.
Long story short - if I am not missing anything - can you please make possible to use these new tools only in the active artboard? They work great on single page, but to use them with multiple artboards this is a must in my opinion.
Thanks for the great improvements in 1.9!

A very bad time to decide you need more GPUs 😂