Renzatic

In VfX Linux is mostly used platform. Apps like Nuke, MARI, Houdini are built on Linux than ported to other platforms. I worked in facilities with few hundred seats where 95% of them were Linux (which is same in most VfX facilities). We had several Win or OSX seats just for Adobe products (mostly PS for concept artists). For example, Weta, most of their workstations are Linux. If you want to work there as 3d artist, Linux knowledge is preferable skill.

Yea, I've accepted that Serif have chosen not to support the Linux platform (regardless of if I disagree with that choice it's theirs to make). No need to act out and try to punish them for it. I just wish they'd develop their applications in such a way that it would be truly cross platform (or at least make it work via wine)

I am not sure where to have posted this, so if it's in the wrong place forgive me.  I have recently started doing Sublimation using both Affinity photo and Designer using a Sawgrass SG500 printer and joined a Facebook Forum group just under 60,000 members on Sublimation for inspiration and further knowledge. The admin of the group is a strong advocator of using the Affinity designer program and lots of members have taken up her online courses on how to use Designer after purchasing the program. Several others who are members of the group are asking about an alternative to Adobe products and the overwhelming response is Serif Affinity Designer or Photo.  Just thought I would let Serif know about the promotion of the programs round and about.
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That's assuming what you're looking for is either in your package manager, or there's a handy .flatpakref/.rpm to download. God forbid someone's mean enough to send you a program in a tar.gz file.
Basically speaking, I just tell people that flatpaks are in /.var/app, and everything else is in /.local/share in your home folder. If you have raw app files without an installer, just pop them in one of those folders, and if want it to integrate with your desktop so that you can discover it through a search, or pin it's icon to the taskbar, you have to write a .desktop file, and drop it in /.local/share/application. Having to do this is getting more and more rare by the day, but there are still occasions where you have to do it.
...wish someone told me this years ago.

Though it had improved by a considerable amount, Linux was a lot more fiddly back in the mid '10's compared to now. These days, I'd say that it's no more difficult to use than Windows, once you get used to the differences in how you install and manage apps.

It has adjustment layers. That alone puts it well above GIMP.

Man. I was downloading Photo for a quick experiment, and I saw that I bought it in 2016. That was 6 years ago!
It made me feel old.

It has adjustment layers. That alone puts it well above GIMP.

It has adjustment layers. That alone puts it well above GIMP.

Krita is NOT a fork of GIMP. Quite the opposite, actually: back in 1998 Matthias Ettrich demonstrated how easy it was to hack a Qt GUI around an existing application, which happened to be GIMP. His patch was never published, and caused friction with the GIMP community at the time.
So because the GIMP community was unable to work together towards a better image editor, people in the KDE project decided to start their own image editor, called KImage. That was the start of Krita. and initially named "KImageShop", meant to be a GUI shell around ImageMagick. The name was then changed to "Krayon" due to existing trademark issues related to "KImageShop", and finally renamed to Krita in 2002.
All of which brings me to mention here that Krita 5.1 was just released.
Krita is wonderful to work with for drawing and painting, in my opinion.

Please be assured that your valuable input has been much appreciated by many of us who have read, or who have contributed to, this particular topic. Thank you.

I'm one of those engineers that you're insulting, and I'm also the only engineer to reply to the posts on this thread, trying to help out the community. My time is valuable, and I don't want to waste it reading comments like that.

Man. I was downloading Photo for a quick experiment, and I saw that I bought it in 2016. That was 6 years ago!
It made me feel old.

Man. I was downloading Photo for a quick experiment, and I saw that I bought it in 2016. That was 6 years ago!
It made me feel old.

Stop these insults, or leave the forums

Come on, mate! You’ve been of great help so far, this kind of comments is completely unnecessary. You’re spitting on the face of the people who’s giving us a hand with all this WINE stuff

If I had to take an uneducated stab at a guess, I'd say poor Direct2D implementation in WINE is the major culprit behind the flickering canvas. As far as I know, Direct2D doesn't see much use in games, being used primarily in desktop applications, which means that it's most likely to be ignored by the WINE devs.

When Adobe went for the p̶e̶r̶m̶a̶n̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶e̶x̶t̶o̶r̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ service as a subscription model, that did wonders for the sale of competitor products including all the Affinity products, ON1, Exposure and the rest. I might be wrong but, and as with Wine, I get the distinct impression that the Codeweavers developers have not put the effort that they could do in getting the Affinity products to work reasonably well on Crossover. I think it would be useful if we all made the same requests for the Affinity products over on Codeweavers' own forums here: https://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/
I hope that at some stage we could get to a point where Serif Europe and Codeweavers staff can actually have some discreet discussions about this matter since everyone concerned would make more sales and money (would the staff who read this be willing to do this?).
In the meantime, we can get the Affinity products to work perfectly on Linux so long as we have 16GB and use a virtual machine:
 

If I had to take an uneducated stab at a guess, I'd say poor Direct2D implementation in WINE is the major culprit behind the flickering canvas. As far as I know, Direct2D doesn't see much use in games, being used primarily in desktop applications, which means that it's most likely to be ignored by the WINE devs.

If I had to take an uneducated stab at a guess, I'd say poor Direct2D implementation in WINE is the major culprit behind the flickering canvas. As far as I know, Direct2D doesn't see much use in games, being used primarily in desktop applications, which means that it's most likely to be ignored by the WINE devs.

There were some incidents. Feelings were hurt. People cried. It was terrible.
Though on a high note, a new Gnome extension came out that rounds window corners, so Photo now looks more like a native app. Though it still crashes all the time, and the canvas still flickers a bunch, so it's most one giant tease at the moment. But still...
Rounded window corners!

There were some incidents. Feelings were hurt. People cried. It was terrible.
Though on a high note, a new Gnome extension came out that rounds window corners, so Photo now looks more like a native app. Though it still crashes all the time, and the canvas still flickers a bunch, so it's most one giant tease at the moment. But still...
Rounded window corners!

There were some incidents. Feelings were hurt. People cried. It was terrible.
Though on a high note, a new Gnome extension came out that rounds window corners, so Photo now looks more like a native app. Though it still crashes all the time, and the canvas still flickers a bunch, so it's most one giant tease at the moment. But still...
Rounded window corners!

well the brush lag isnt great, it flickers, but the pen pressure actually works without fussing around which makes it better than Adobe Photoshop(TM) Creative Cloud on Microsoft Windows(R)
I honor your efforts with this shitpost, please enjoy.

The first thing I must do is thank you very much for all the work, effort and feedback that you have put in to make Affinity Photo work on Linux via Wine, etc.
I very much like your suggestion that the Affinity products could be bundled up with all the specific Wine fine-tuned elements in one of the container formats when all the bugs are sorted out. There is already a precedent for this.The free Windows-only photo editor Photoscape 3.7 software is bundled with Wine as a Snap. It works so well that you cannot tell that this is not native Linux software.
I would like to see the same thing happen with the three Affinity software products starting with the 30 day trial version of Affinity Photo. However, it ought to be pointed out that this might require the permission of, or at least tolerance of the situation by, Serif Europe. The trial version of commercial VueScan scanner software is currently available as a Flatpak so again there is a successful precedent there and no doubt Vuescan gets additional sales that way so it's a win-win situation for everyone.
I would welcome the comments from Serif Europe staff about the issues raised in the paragraph directly above.