Keith Reeder
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10 hours ago, s.auler said:
There are no end-user benefits for Windows Apps.
There. FTFY.
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2 hours ago, LeeThorpe said:
Hi,
Please attempt the following troubleshooting steps if you are experiencing issues installing an MSIX. Please ensure you are running Windows 11 or Windows 10 May 2020 Update (2004, 20H1, build 19041) or later and have installed the Microsoft App installer available here: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/app-installer/9NBLGGH4NNS1
Lee
Lee,
the whole point of using Windows is not to have to put more effort into installing a program than will be needed to actually use the thing.
If we wanted to tool around with fixes, workarounds, additional downloads, troubleshooting and such nonsense, we'd be Linux users.
For myself I'm 100% compliant with the system requirements; I've tried every published workaround (and more besides); and I still can't get past the splash screen.
There are umpteen posts on the forum decrying Serif's decision to fix something that wasn't broken by using MSIX - it's time that Serif took the hint and went back to an installation approach that just works.
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2 hours ago, LeeThorpe said:
These are the minimum requirements specified on our store.
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/full-feature-list/
Lee
With no mention of the need to use an app installer - which doesn't help anyway: Photo 2 apparently installs, but on opening I get a splash screen and nothing else.
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8 minutes ago, Bloque9 said:
Really? Do you find that hard to believe that 20,000 people in all the world would pay for a license on linux?
Doesn't matter what anyone here "believes" - why should Serif gamble on wishful thinking and Linux user "I'm sure..."s?
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37 minutes ago, EMHmark7 said:
But, why not program Affinity in a multi-platform low level compiled language such as Web Assembly (Rust for FireFox) or other new languages that we begin to hear about (I do not remember the names) that will be reliable because they will take care of memory allocation, etc?
Because Serif have neither the time nor the resources to port the current version to a new language?
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12 hours ago, Qu4ntumSpin said:
That's how you ask for money, your first build something great, then you lay down a great plan for growing up and then you ask for money.
Not in the commercial world, it ain't!
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7 hours ago, Redsandro said:
Thank you @Mark Ingram. This brings some clarity
"Clarity"?
Which bit of Mark's comment adds anything that wasn't already crystal clear months and months ago?
This is the problem (and no, criticising your behaviour is not ad hominem) - you have flatly refused to take on board Serif's long-standing, unambiguous, and unchanged position: instead you've continued to stir the pot despite the answer to your question having been there for all to see since not long after the thread started.
It's very hard to identify a difference between your constant hair-splitting, provocative, fact-denying refusal to accept the blindingly obvious reality of the situation and good old-fashioned trolling.
For the avoidance of any doubt then: until Serif tells you otherwise, you aren't getting a Linux version.
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On 2/16/2019 at 5:56 PM, Medical Officer Bones said:
@SrPx Your experience is identical to mine. I tried to switch friends and family to Linux, mainly because the only tasks involved were web browsing and a spot of text processing.
So get them a Chromebook...
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On 5/15/2019 at 2:08 AM, D’T4ils said:
I love to see that so many people is interested in having this actually happening
And just how many is that?
10? 20?
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On 5/14/2019 at 2:23 PM, micksear said:
If I could buy Affinity Photo for Linux, I'd do so, even though I've already paid for it and Designer on the Mac.
£50 - £100 for a licence is not going to be a barrier for me. I can get away with Linux office products or even use MS 365 via a browser, but I can't deal with no decent graphics software, and Affinity products do just what I need.
It's not Serif's job to facilitate your dislike of your current OS.
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8 hours ago, kleber.swf said:
Companies like the one I'm working right now is changing to Linux not because of the cost, but the security and easy integration with cloud stuff.
If you can't easily and securely integrate with the Cloud from a Windows or MacOS platform, you're doing it wrong. You don't need Linux for that.
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On 5/21/2019 at 4:09 PM, Maciej Jurzenka said:
How stupid is not developing affinity on linux, u have like no competition on linux..
"Sneering Linux zealots," as I said.
What would be stupid would be for Serif to throw limited resources into an unknown market, when there's still plenty of work to do on the versions of the software which exist for the two main OS platforms, and which are already paying their way.
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27 minutes ago, Redsandro said:
Serif is taking a different approach of mostly ignoring the demand except for the occasional sneer that we can't just demand a Linux version.
They are not "ignoring demand" - you simply haven't proven that there is sufficient demand. The noise on here (the same relatively few people making most of it) proves nothing, nor do the odd anecdotal "my company of [X] people would use a Linux version..." posts
And the sneering comes from Linux zealots like yourself, not from Serif. You might want to re-read what you wrote before accusing anyone else of "sneering".
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1 hour ago, Requester said:
Bill Gates said, that no one will ever seriously need internet.
How many people said, when Steve Jobs presented the smart phone, that the smartphone will end up in a niche product (like here people talk about linux).
The truth is, we never know.
A complete irrelevant analogy.
Linux has had more than enough time by now to have proven itself as The Next Big Thing.
Unlike the internet and smartphones, it has singularly, self-evidently failed to do so.
QED.
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23 minutes ago, Redsandro said:
Corel AfterShot Pro had the same choice. Starting from Corel AfterShot Pro 2, they did port their software to Linux. AfterShot Pro 3 is available for two distro's (rpm based and deb based). I don't know if people from the industry ever run into each other, but perhaps Affinity can ask some Corel folks if it was a good, bad or neutral move, and if they sold more than 3 copies.
AfterShot Pro is dead - the very definition of abandonware.
Tells the story, doesn't it..?
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On 1/30/2019 at 12:35 PM, mvlad said:
I think that Serif should capitalize on the linux market as soon as they can before Adobe releases anything, for maximum profit
More irrelevant speculation based on nothing more than "I think...". "I want..."
All this noise about "the Linux market" - where is it? It'd make more sense for Serif to produce a Chromebook Affinity product, based on actual - and prospective - market share!
(And yes, I know what OS Chrome is based on...)
This article says all we need to know - maybe when this changes. Serif's opinion will:
QuoteSo, What Is Linux’s Market Share?
It’s impossible to say. There are just too many variations across too many pieces of technology to be able to accurately deduce any top-level figures.
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8 minutes ago, Rosmaninho said:
To everyone interested in the package format instead of harassing Linux users that love Affinity products I think it's an interesting video.
Haven't you got that back-to-front? Linux zealots interminably banging on about what they want (and making up fairy stories about the viability of it), despite it being clear that it ain't happening, is far closer to harassment than anything written on here pushing back
"Linux users that love Affinity products" need to make a decision: which is more important to them? Their love of Affinity? Or their OS religious fundamentalism?
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10 hours ago, Redsandro said:
For a lot of people, Windows is literally one piece of software away from being irrelevant.
Here we go again - this completely unquantified, unquantifiable "a lot".
No smart business makes investment commitments on the basis of such speculative, uninformed, questionable market estimates.
I wonder if Microsoft paid Affinity $500,000 to not make a Linux version.Sarcasm or not, good grief. What possible logic is there to such a ridiculous speculation? Seriously - what does MS gain by doing something like that?
Has your tinfoil hat fallen off?
Linux zealots aren't "problem solvers" in my experience - just a bunch of selfish, disruptive, conspiracy theorist malcontents who are never happy, and who think the world owes them something.
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42 minutes ago, Nvim said:
Linux version is multi million dollar proposition for Affinity.
Yeah... You've made that up.
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1 hour ago, Rosmaninho said:
They don't need to make sure that it works no matter how the OS is configured. They just need to throw their hat and say: we support ONLY Ubuntu and use a snap format.
You mean, like they currently do with Windows and Mac?
And before you changed it, your post also said "If anyone wants anything else then too bad." Funny how that's not OK when they say it about Linux, eh?
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1 hour ago, Rosmaninho said:
They're missing an opportunity of entering a market that is completely vacant since Photoshop ignores it.
And why do you think that is?
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By doing this your pandering to the exact behaviour some of us reacted to in the fist place, Callum - it'll just happen again if you remove the evidence.
I also resent the inference that there was more than one "out of order" contributor to the thread - the troll got exactly what he deserved, and if you were so bothered about it you should have come in sooner, rather than reactively blaming the rest of us for how the thread developed.
And he was wrong.
You know what? Thanks to you, I'm done with this forum, Callum - few things wind me up more than forum moderators who allow trolls free-reign and then blame other people for how a thread turns out.
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Yes Bobtographer, you do have the right to stay with PS, but what I don't understand is why you need to come onto this site and make a statement.
Indeed. Tediously self-important, isn't it?
As far as adobe's desire to take over my computer, send messages back and forth about what is happening on my computer (get an app and watch all the phoning home they do) to justify their invasive desire to restrict the usage of their apps is Orwellian.
But hey if you don't care about being monitored, your choice.
I purchased a stand alone LR 6, bought it outright and sometime last year they decided that they should monitor that. That was it all adobe shit has been wiped from my computers.
So my suggestion is to just quietly leave.
As is this self-absorbed paranoia.
(I'm an information- and privacy-law professional in the UK - I understand this stuff - and this nonsense is seriously over the top).
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Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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An end-result equally achievable simply by downloading directly from Serif.