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I work professionally doing CGI and Linux workstations can be tailored to user needs and even workflows and kept stable and sane. That's a productivity boost. I don't care that much if it's free or not, we have budgets, but the most expensive to us is losing work hours because the system updates, changes in different machines causes issues... there are many things that get out of wack in Windows we can't easily afford. Mac products have that somewhat sorted by limiting hardware and tailoring the experience and configuration possible to make it manageable. And colour management it's reasonable and, most importantly, fixed for almost all macs. For a heavy 3D production environment Macs are not really a choice due to some hardware limitations. That is why I so wish we had Affinity software for Linux. In some scenarios is really a great bonus to have it right there, instead of dedicating workstations just for that use, either windows or mac machines. Dual boot sometimes doesn't solve the issue at all and presents other challenges. I thank all of you for taking the time to test and evolve the solutions presented here, hopefully until we find a way to actually work with Affinity software in Linux, be it native or with WINE. It's really appreciated and some of the less Linux tech savvy part of the community truly hopes you succeed. Thanks.

Thank you so much for this! I'll test it right away! Edit: It works!

Thank you so much for this!

Hey, thanks! It will definitely help. I'll take a look and when I have some spare time I'll give it a go. Much appreciated!

Well, I'm fantastically lost. I'll give it a go at a later point in time. Maybe some how-to guide will come out of it. Right now, I got overwhelmed with the amount of information in this long thread. Admittedly, I don't have a lot of time to sit and go through it all. If work gives me some spare time I'll give it another go. Maybe some more savvy chap could compile the procedures in a guide for users to try this out. That could favor having enough users trying it out and share progress, bugs and workarounds. Thank you again, though. Good thing this is working.

Aaalrighty then, I shall try to follow the whole WINE install and configuration and the Affinity software on top myself as well. I'm running a variation of Arch in X11, I'll have to sift through the posts here to see the actual procedure to follow and hopefully I'll manage to make it work. It'd be useful to have a dedicated thread for testing and reporting what's working and what's still not there yet, as you suggested, yes. A thread just for the installation and another for the actual use of the software in Linux could be of use going forward. For now, I'll try to make sense of all that's here to see if I can find what to do and how. It's been a long time since I tried WINE and I'm a tad lost. Thanks again for all your efforts and taking the time to answer me back!

It's admirable the amount of work and care displayed in this thread. Hats off! Is the experience of the actual Affinity software any good after installation, though? Or are there any hopes moving forward that it will be somewhat on par with Windows or Mac experiences? Feel absolutely free to ignore me here, of course. I just wonder if it is actually viable to work with Affinity software in Linux/WINE at this point in time with the solutions available to us. What I can see is that as a proof of concept this all thing is invaluable. It shows that with some involvement from the company this could potentially work, besides the optimal solution of publishing a Linux port that they seem to flat out reject (or that is my understanding) for their own reasons. Anyway, I just wanted to show my admiration for the work and care put into this endeavour and I also was wondering if anyone can reliably produce work with it once installed.

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+1 I'd also like to use Affinity Suite for my job but the lack of OCIO v2 prevents me to do so for most of my jobs. I'd be delighted if OCIO v2 was supported. Thanks for considering the implementation of OCIO v2.

Yes, I can't use AgX to colour correct renders coming from Blender properly. I'd love to do that in Affinity software. Any news on Affinity Suite supporting OCIO v2?