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Which ties nicely into my point if this is the case then our number of requests should remain insignificant and easy to ignore. There is a lack of data to suggest that it would of wouldn't work however a community showing interest is still something that Serif could choose to consider if it did reach high enough numbers.

True and I don't totally disagree but when the data isn't really out there the results won't be as certain. I won't suggest that it will definitely be profitable for Serif to make a Linux port but Linux users like me expressing a desire to purchase the software to run on Linux still gives them additional data to process.

I picked up on that too. I find it perplexing that people take offence to requests for Affinity on Linux and get angry when someone else joins as that sort of behaviour isn't favourable to Serif as a company. If not enough people for a Linux port to be beneficial appear interested then surely we're easy to ignore and if enough do that means that it's in there favour to do so and the community scaring people off could be preventing the growth of the project.

Quite, as so few companies have ported professional software to Linux, the success stories are also few. Add that to the amount of misinformation surrounding who uses Linux, it wouldn't look like it might be cost effective I agree hence why I thought I'd attempt to vocalise a desire for the product which, unfortunately, most people don't bother to do.

There are many people in the Linux community who are crying out for software like the affinity suit. Many people have mentioned that they think Linux users only want software that can be acquired for free and someone here referred to it being 'a badge of honour' for Linux users however this is a misunderstanding, a very vocal segment of the community stand by a 'freedom as in speech' philosophy. This is a very small number of people but they are willing to pay for software that is the wrong kind of free. I know also that there are many Linux users who duel-boot or virtualise Windows (which means that they are buying the license for that as well as paying for software), this is not ideal and when decent software is ported over they are very keen to migrate over to it. The Affinity software is just the kind that a large number of people would love to be able to use on Linux and so long as enough people are made aware of it, many people would would choose it over its competitors if it was available for Linux.

Even just tar ball it so that it's available to Linux users. I would go for it with if that was all I could get (although a .deb would be awesome as that would serve most Linux users anyway).