Redsandro

Before any of that, I think that all us had better start pulling in the same direction (even if we'd like to see all three Affinity apps come to Linux one way or another) by doing what @Redsandro suggested and vote up Affinity Photo at Wine HQ so that it becomes more prominent and gets noticed -  https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39311
All it requires is a simple registration and casting your votes and no expense is involved (and yes, I have already done this).

However, there is now a no-cost opportunity for us to collectively and practically demonstrate our interest in getting the Affinity products to work on Linux but it involves not whining but getting off our asses, registering with Wine HQ and voting, voting and voting again right here: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39311

Because that's precisely what WINE is all about. 

If we can seriously get 150 people to cast 3 votes for Affinity Photo, then the next 150 people can vote for Affinity Designer and they'll both be the top two.
Keep in mind that this is an interesting experiment (Thanks @Bez Bezson, I didn't even know about that vote option) to get attention from wine devs checking the list. It is not a guarantee that someone will fix the wine problems.

Because that's precisely what WINE is all about. 

Because that's precisely what WINE is all about. 

I don't think Serif has interest at this point in time, but we have interest in getting Wine support. So if you have a decent sized audience, you could offer them the WineHQ voting experiment and see if they want to help vote Affinity Photo to the top of the list. 😃
You could tell them about the community effort to get attention from the Wine team, not Serif.

If we can seriously get 150 people to cast 3 votes for Affinity Photo, then the next 150 people can vote for Affinity Designer and they'll both be the top two.
Keep in mind that this is an interesting experiment (Thanks @Bez Bezson, I didn't even know about that vote option) to get attention from wine devs checking the list. It is not a guarantee that someone will fix the wine problems.

I don't think Serif has interest at this point in time, but we have interest in getting Wine support. So if you have a decent sized audience, you could offer them the WineHQ voting experiment and see if they want to help vote Affinity Photo to the top of the list. 😃
You could tell them about the community effort to get attention from the Wine team, not Serif.

I voted as well, but for Affinity Designer:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=37277

You convinced me to vote for Photo. Since you can change your 3 votes at will for any product, it was no problem to change that.

Ditto. My three votes are now assigned to Photo.

Me too voted just now.  I really just want an illustrator alternative. Does anyone know where to get old illustrator versions? This seems to indicate it only goes as far back as CS6:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/install-older-version-of-illustrator/m-p/10360849
I'd totally settle for Illustator 8 from 1998 if I could find it somewhere! I bet that's pretty much impossible...
Btw one foreseeable drawback to this plan of voting for Photo even though we want Designer is that others who aren't tuned in to our strategy  will look at that and just go "I'm good with gimp, why bother with this?" 
 

50 votes already!

Keep up and tell your (linux) friends to register and vote as well and we will push Affinity Photo on the first place within a week!
Affinity Photo page on WineHQ:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39311

you have a limited amount of votes, instead of spreading them throughout the suite let's keep the votes contained in the same app, the one that Redsandro linked. The issue is most likely the same across the board but it'll take us longer to get there if we spread out the votes

Let's give this a try. Cast votes for the latest reported version. We only need 407 votes to be at the top of the list.

Let's give this a try. Cast votes for the latest reported version. We only need 407 votes to be at the top of the list.

Let's give this a try. Cast votes for the latest reported version. We only need 407 votes to be at the top of the list.

Well it got my 3 votes. And I added an appeal for the whole suite.
And as to the discussion re App Stores and the way Apple is going... yes, macOS treats software from sources other than the Store with a load of suspicion. Security supposedly justifying this suspicion. Why then, if that were really the problem, would Linux not be riddled malicious software? And then I think, perhaps for the same reason it isn't riddled with an abundance of good graphics software ;-)

Let's give this a try. Cast votes for the latest reported version. We only need 407 votes to be at the top of the list.

Okay, so Serif aren't keen on giving us a dedicated Linux version, but lets see if we can get it Wine compatible.
If you go here;  https://appdb.winehq.org/  and create a login, then you can vote on what apps you want Wine fixed to work with.
Once you're logged in, search for Affinity and if you go into either of those there should be a 'vote' button. You have three votes, and you can give multiple votes to the same app if you want.
The more votes we can give Affinity, the more likely it is to get fixed for Wine.

Thank you Mark. 
If I understand correctly, the thing that is stopping Affinity products from opening the art board is a special version of Vulkan child window rendering (VkChildWindow), and it affects DxO PhotoLab and Autodesk Fusion 360 too. This issue is tracked in this bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45277
I'm not sure that is the whole story, but it makes sense to see what happens after that bug is fixed first.
After that, if there are more Affinity specific bugs, what would be the best way for a developer to contact you?

Thank you Mark. 
If I understand correctly, the thing that is stopping Affinity products from opening the art board is a special version of Vulkan child window rendering (VkChildWindow), and it affects DxO PhotoLab and Autodesk Fusion 360 too. This issue is tracked in this bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45277
I'm not sure that is the whole story, but it makes sense to see what happens after that bug is fixed first.
After that, if there are more Affinity specific bugs, what would be the best way for a developer to contact you?

Thank you Mark. 
If I understand correctly, the thing that is stopping Affinity products from opening the art board is a special version of Vulkan child window rendering (VkChildWindow), and it affects DxO PhotoLab and Autodesk Fusion 360 too. This issue is tracked in this bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45277
I'm not sure that is the whole story, but it makes sense to see what happens after that bug is fixed first.
After that, if there are more Affinity specific bugs, what would be the best way for a developer to contact you?