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They are officially supported. So you do not need to try any of them. That's the whole point behind official support. Guys, keep up voting and ask for votings at wineHQ! https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39311 Are there any Wine related news?

But on the other hand, the percentage of the linux users interested in professional software like Affinity products, is for sure much higher than of the windows users, as most windows users use their pc to write a letter and surf the internet. Much more linux users by percentage of all linux users are on a more professional level on using computers and have a need for more software in all directions. Even more mac users by percentage of all mac users are especially (originally) more on a design level and working with photo editing, design and so on. But as @Michael Tunnell told already, the facts we can only get by doing focused research and actions on this topic. So i don't like to talk about what could be ... but to talk about, what we can do right now.

Now we are in the top 10 of WineHQ! (at 8!) https://appdb.winehq.org/votestats.php Please continue voting here after registration, and don't forget to mark the 3 checkboxes when submitting your vote! https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=39311 And continue asking your friends to vote! Thank you all!

I am afraid that the survey system of WineHQ has not been properly understood by some. For example, i told many people to register and give 3 votes, after 5 of them replied, that they had voted, there were only about 6 more votes. You need to ensure, when voting, to enable all 3 checks before submitting.

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

Then they should rather still vote for Designer than not vote at all. But if they also recognize, that the chances for Designer increases, if they vote for Photo, they might vote for Photo as well as I did.

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.

That's true, but i need the Affinity Designer much much much more than the Affinity Photo. Photoshop CS5 has Platinum at wine and runs fine. So you all can get a license for Photoshop CS5 and run at Linux. And many other versions have Gold. That's because Photoshop is the second most voted application on wine! Illustrator has Platinum for Version 8.0 only (Which had been released at 1998!) and most versions are Garbage rated. So it is only just fair, that everybody votes for his needs. Don't be angry ... better than no votes at all! But as there are many Photoshop versions already running fine, I think the demand for Designer is greater by far.

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

Serif could make sure or at least support that their programs "coincidentally" work very well with Wine, but offer no support for Linux. They could then act as if they knew nothing about it. The Linux and Wine community would be responsible for it at their own. Like Adobe with Photoshop CS5 for example, that has Platinum rating for Wine ... but Illustrator CS5 has Garbage.

Unfortunately you can not explicitely donate for GIMP, it's donate button goes to the GNOME Foundation. So the money might have been put more in to GNOME / GTK than GIMP ... and may explain, why GIMP is not pushed that much. But I did a donation anyway a few days ago.

I decided to go for Inkscape (again) instead of Affinity Designer a few weeks ago and just made a donation to them. My rarely use of Affinity Photo will be done by GIMP (again) in future. I made a donation for them as well. And I'm going to use Scribus (again), if i might need some DTP again, but that happens all few years. If Serif doesn't want to go to linux, we can support the products, that are available on linux to get better.

What do you think is the real issue after? Even when only the current version would work fine, the linux user might accept, if there is only one fix release once a year. I don't like people who are to much focused about reasons against solutions, against dreams, in that case against a linux version. I prefer focusing on solutions, not problems. Because i love solutions, not problems. If you try to find solutions you will find solutions. If try to find problems you will find problems. I wrote a mail to the CodeWeaver customer service asking why there is no affinity designer working yet and got the following response: The voting function at their compatibility is very rarely used, because you need to have an unexpired crossover licence connected with your account to vote for an app. Designer has 5 votes yet, the highest voted application has only 14 votes! So if you have an unexpired account, you know what to do right now! Alongside they have an forum where we can ask for compatibility of Affinity Products! So me may buy the products next time at CodeWeavers again, if we already have a windows version.

You are right, their offer on their website: https://www.codeweavers.com/portjump This would give Serif the opportunity to give an insight without much risk and with minimal effort whether a simple "port" might be possible without much effort. For me this is by far the most realistic possibility to realize a Linux version without much effort!

The full performance might not be necessary like the Windows games running on Proton. 10% less performance does not matter. Even some windows applications run on the same performance or above, since Proton wraps the DirectX directly to the Vulkan-API. Valve might be interested to support other software beneath games as well. Could be a new business model of valve at all to make popular end user software available for linux. Serif on the other hand might only distribute their "linux windows version" at Steam for little effort and check so the demand of their product on the linux market. If the demand is high, they might even make a native port at version 2.x