Renzatic

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!

^ Now that should be absolutely crystal clear for everyone to understand that we are not going to get a Linux version so there is no point anyone again asking for it to happen.
That said, Serif Europe staff, in particular Mark Ingram, have been very helpful with their comments and constructive suggestions in trying to get Affinity Photo to work under Wine and thank you very much for that for it is greatly appreciated.

Just to test things out, I installed Photo using 1stnoob's custom recipe above, but using Bottle's brand new Soda 7.0-2 runner.
It works better than it has previously. I can now reliably open the preferences panel without crashing, and can even drag and drop images into the editor from Files like a native application. That said, the canvas is still a little flaky, and enabling the rulers on the UI, or hitting up a more process intensive live filters like lighting can cause it to crash.
Right now, I'd consider it, maybe, 60% usable. So close, but not quite there yet.

Oh maaaaaan GOOD WORK! It's such a relief to not have to boot up a freakin windows install just to use affinity
Affinity Designer is working in Ubuntu 22.04 ...with nvidia GPU rendering !
Wanted to report in @1stn00b's guide here does work https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/47502-affinity-products-for-linux/page/92/#comment-940833 Thank you!!!
Although I am experiencing flickering issues as well, but hopefully we can find a workaround soon. 👀

 
 

I made a 3000x3000 image, and upsized an oil brush to around 2000px. It looks like it's painting at about the same speed as it would in Windows, but the canvas goes so screwy that it's nigh unusable.

I made a 3000x3000 image, and upsized an oil brush to around 2000px. It looks like it's painting at about the same speed as it would in Windows, but the canvas goes so screwy that it's nigh unusable.

Just to test things out, I installed Photo using 1stnoob's custom recipe above, but using Bottle's brand new Soda 7.0-2 runner.
It works better than it has previously. I can now reliably open the preferences panel without crashing, and can even drag and drop images into the editor from Files like a native application. That said, the canvas is still a little flaky, and enabling the rulers on the UI, or hitting up a more process intensive live filters like lighting can cause it to crash.
Right now, I'd consider it, maybe, 60% usable. So close, but not quite there yet.

Just to test things out, I installed Photo using 1stnoob's custom recipe above, but using Bottle's brand new Soda 7.0-2 runner.
It works better than it has previously. I can now reliably open the preferences panel without crashing, and can even drag and drop images into the editor from Files like a native application. That said, the canvas is still a little flaky, and enabling the rulers on the UI, or hitting up a more process intensive live filters like lighting can cause it to crash.
Right now, I'd consider it, maybe, 60% usable. So close, but not quite there yet.

Just to test things out, I installed Photo using 1stnoob's custom recipe above, but using Bottle's brand new Soda 7.0-2 runner.
It works better than it has previously. I can now reliably open the preferences panel without crashing, and can even drag and drop images into the editor from Files like a native application. That said, the canvas is still a little flaky, and enabling the rulers on the UI, or hitting up a more process intensive live filters like lighting can cause it to crash.
Right now, I'd consider it, maybe, 60% usable. So close, but not quite there yet.

It did the same thing to me. I could see my GPU listed in the tab, and it reported that what it saw as Windows 10 was up to snuff for the task, but it still wouldn't allow me to turn on hardware rendering. Right now, WARP is the only option.

Actually i think this is a bug in Bottles for now - but they have a 2 week release cycles between versions.
In order to make it work for now create a custom bottle and import the yml configuration file as a Custom Recepie - and the most important part chose Caffe as Runner - if u don't have it on that list use Preferences in main window to install it prior to creation.

After you install the programs you need to Change Launch Options for each program and add --no-hw-ui to the Command Arguments and you are good to go 😆

After that the programs will run - sorta -  since Publisher it's actually unusable crashing without reason just by looking at it - and also if all of them are started together they kinda work on turns - so for now one at a time is safe bet : >

 
L.E : Bottles just got new update with more goodies : https://usebottles.com/blog/release-2022.7.14/
L.L.E : Made slimmed down configuration file to install Affinity in Bottles (deleted everything inside i didn't find necessary) and attached here. The setup files i'm using are the ones i got directly from my serif account and they install without problem.

 
 
AffinityCustomBottleRecipe.yml

OMG, thank you, it stils fells a little sluggish, kinda slow too and there are some screen teraring, but even the presure sensitivnes in my graphic tablet is working

That helped out tremendously. The canvas is buggy, flickering when you drag, pan, and zoom, and occasionally it'll stop drawing portions of your image (which you can get back with a quick pan), but it's actually functional. I opened up an old image, threw a couple of quick adjustment layers on it, then opened a new canvas, dragged the tab over a slot, then ran a paintbrush over it. Didn't notice any lag or hiccups beyond the canvas issues. So you CAN edit in it, even if the experience is sorta janky at the moment.
 

Edit: Here's a quick little video showing off some real basic functionality.
 

@jaizon  : if u scroll up on that page i asked the same thing and Renzatic posted the config file i used  :
 

This is the closest I've yet managed to get. I can open the application, and screw around with all the various bits and bobs in the UI, but when I try to open a document, it crashes on me.
This is the farther I can go.
Edit: Okay, further experiments. I managed to get it to open both a new document, and an old, fairly complicated Photo file I had lying around.
The good news is that it works, and it looks like it works well. That old complicated Photo file I opened up has a fair amount of adjustment layers stacked on top of groups of layers each with their own adjustement layers within. It looked like it was handling things like a champ.
The bad news is that the UI is a flaky, flickering mess that's nearly impossible to use.
So we're 3/4ths of the way there. Underneath it all, there's a working program. We just need to wait until a fix comes by that stabilizes the UI.

Nvidia GPUs don't really have any problem in Linux, besides flaky Wayland compatibility, and having to go a little above and beyond to install the drivers for them. I don't think I've used the Hide Nvidia GPU proton flag once in my entire life.

Nvidia GPUs don't really have any problem in Linux, besides flaky Wayland compatibility, and having to go a little above and beyond to install the drivers for them. I don't think I've used the Hide Nvidia GPU proton flag once in my entire life.

The only way I've managed to get past that is to create a bottle tailored to applications. It installs Mono automatically, which seems to fix the .Net 3.5 issue. Of course, that limits you to only using Caffe 7.5.
When I try creating a custom bottle with another runner, it always fails to grab its own version of Mono. Installing it from the dependencies does nothing. Installing dotnet35 fails to complete, and, well, it seems my options are limited. Changing the runner manually in the yml file doesn't seem to do much of anything at all.
Shame this isn't a big game everyone wants to play. We'd have a fully running version by now if it were.

Out of curiosity, what changes have you made to my base configuration? I still can't access the Preferences panel.
Also, switching to a Wayland session does lead to a slightly less flicker filled experience.

Made a video of running Affinity Photo on my Fedora Workstation 36 thru Bottles
AffinityPhotoFedora.mp4 Sorry for lower quality just installed OBS Studio Flatpak and run the auto-configuration wizard at start.  
 

That helped out tremendously. The canvas is buggy, flickering when you drag, pan, and zoom, and occasionally it'll stop drawing portions of your image (which you can get back with a quick pan), but it's actually functional. I opened up an old image, threw a couple of quick adjustment layers on it, then opened a new canvas, dragged the tab over a slot, then ran a paintbrush over it. Didn't notice any lag or hiccups beyond the canvas issues. So you CAN edit in it, even if the experience is sorta janky at the moment.
 

Edit: Here's a quick little video showing off some real basic functionality.
 

That helped out tremendously. The canvas is buggy, flickering when you drag, pan, and zoom, and occasionally it'll stop drawing portions of your image (which you can get back with a quick pan), but it's actually functional. I opened up an old image, threw a couple of quick adjustment layers on it, then opened a new canvas, dragged the tab over a slot, then ran a paintbrush over it. Didn't notice any lag or hiccups beyond the canvas issues. So you CAN edit in it, even if the experience is sorta janky at the moment.
 

Edit: Here's a quick little video showing off some real basic functionality.
 

It is a no-brainer for CodeWeavers to try to get the three Affinity softwares to work well on CrossOver because of the increased sales they would get.
I think it would be useful if everyone went over to CodeWeavers' website, downloaded Crossover ( https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover/download ), tried it out with Photo, Publisher and Designer, reported the bugs and faults back to CodeWeavers and started a thread discussion about the Affinity products on Crossover ( https://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums ).
They are perhaps the best potential option to try to solve the problem of running Affinity software on Linux (aside from the VM route, that is).
 

Most EULAs are filled to bursting with stipulations that sound scary on paper, but are unenforceable from a legal standpoint.
Did you all read the license agreement when you installed your Affinity apps? Do you REALLY think Serif has total ownership of our immortal souls?

Think this could be because you're using Wayland? Since I've got an Nvidia card, I tend to stick to X more often than not.