chrisoffner3d

I would like to chime in and express, in hopefully a less demanding but nonetheless passionate manner, my strong wish for a Linux version as well. A couple of days ago I purchased Affinity Designer for Windows but my primary OS nowadays is Linux - as it is for the majority of Visual Effects artists actually, since most VFX studios run on Linux.

For most of us, Photoshop and ZBrush are the only reasons why we still have to dual-boot into Windows, and while there are valid alternatives for 3D sculpting on Linux (Maya, Blender, 3D Coat), Photoshop or Illustrator have no real match on Linux, unfortunately.

I can speak for myself and many of my colleagues that we'd be more than thrilled to ditch Photoshop and Adobe if Affinity would allow us to use Designer and Photo on Linux - and I'd gladly buy another license for that. :)

I would like to chime in and express, in hopefully a less demanding but nonetheless passionate manner, my strong wish for a Linux version as well. A couple of days ago I purchased Affinity Designer for Windows but my primary OS nowadays is Linux - as it is for the majority of Visual Effects artists actually, since most VFX studios run on Linux.

For most of us, Photoshop and ZBrush are the only reasons why we still have to dual-boot into Windows, and while there are valid alternatives for 3D sculpting on Linux (Maya, Blender, 3D Coat), Photoshop or Illustrator have no real match on Linux, unfortunately.

I can speak for myself and many of my colleagues that we'd be more than thrilled to ditch Photoshop and Adobe if Affinity would allow us to use Designer and Photo on Linux - and I'd gladly buy another license for that. :)

Same here, I only created an account on the forum to say there is a real market for a Linux version.
Having managed in the past a medium size VFX studio in the past having to stick with windows just for Photoshop and Zbrush is such a pain I would have gladly paid 4 time the price to get rid of all the Adobe crap. No floating licenses, no support...
I am now working in one of the biggest VFX company of the world, and we have literally hundreds of artists that need a secondary machine + KVM for freaking photoshop, as Linux is the standard OS for every major and medium company. Even if you were to sell the Linux version for 500$ it would still be far less than all the time and complexity and hardware currently involved.
 
All of the major CG piece of software were developed on linux first to meet the needs of big studios: Maya, Houdini, Nuke, Katana, Mari, Arnold, Renderman etc... If that many software companies went full linux first for this "niche market" it is probably worth it.
 
Go for a kickstarter if you want to test the waters before investing anything.
 
Unless this has nothing to do with economics...

I would like to chime in and express, in hopefully a less demanding but nonetheless passionate manner, my strong wish for a Linux version as well. A couple of days ago I purchased Affinity Designer for Windows but my primary OS nowadays is Linux - as it is for the majority of Visual Effects artists actually, since most VFX studios run on Linux.

For most of us, Photoshop and ZBrush are the only reasons why we still have to dual-boot into Windows, and while there are valid alternatives for 3D sculpting on Linux (Maya, Blender, 3D Coat), Photoshop or Illustrator have no real match on Linux, unfortunately.

I can speak for myself and many of my colleagues that we'd be more than thrilled to ditch Photoshop and Adobe if Affinity would allow us to use Designer and Photo on Linux - and I'd gladly buy another license for that. :)