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Snapseed

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  1. Please put stereotyped views aside and just think for one moment. If Linux, for example, had a 15% market share then the great majority of those people would almost certainly be standard ordinary computer users just like macOS users. I believe that developers should be rewarded for their efforts and I am only too happy to pay for software like Softmaker Office, Pixeluvo, Vuescan, Ukuu and the rest.
  2. Tbh, I am not sure that's the real issue. As of last month, macOS had a desktop market share of 15.6% whereas Linux's comparable figure was 2.77%, i.e. Linux has a market share 6x smaller than macOS. If macOS had, for example, a general market share of 15.6% and Linux had one of 14.8% then very many more companies would likely produce a Linux version of their softwares. When it comes to specialist development work, Linux has a reported developer market share of between 30% to 40% so that makes it worthwhile for companies in that area like JetBrains to produce Linux versions of their products.
  3. I am afraid not and the definitive answer is provided below by Serif Europe's very own Patrick Connor: If you have got 16GB of RAM or more, then it might be worth looking at this method:
  4. With respect, the actual figure for general Linux desktop users in November 2022 according to Statcounter was 2.77%. That said, that figure is not nearly enough for many companies to consider viably porting their software over to Linux unless the existing software is already cross platform Qt-based, for example (the Affinity products are not). Therefore, I fully understand Serif Europe's position on this matter. People also forget that Serif Europe is 100x smaller than the Adobe Corporation and so they just don't have the resources that Adobe do. So what should us Linux users do then? (me included) There are three things that can be done: 1. In the case of Affinity Photo, consider using Linux-friendly alternatives like PhotoGimp ( = less sucky Gimp), Photopea, Krita or PhotoLine + Wine (Photoshop versions CS6 and CS2 also work well with Wine). Equivalents are also available for Designer and Publisher. Head over here to find them - https://alternativeto.net/ 2. Try out Photo, Designer and Publisher on Linux by using Windows as a guest operating system in a virtual environment (VirtualBox or VMware) as illustrated in forum member Hartmut Doering's post below: 3. it is completely pointless to keep on asking Serif Europe staff on these forums to port Photo, Designer and Publisher to Linux because they have made it crystal clear on numerous occasions that this is not going to happen. It is far more logical for Linux users to instead head over to CodeWeavers' CrossOver forums and ask them to please make it a priority for CrossOver to work well with Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher. Link - https://www.codeweavers.com/support/forums/general/?t=26
  5. The issue faced by Serif Europe when it comes to Android is the high level of operating system version fragmentation and the number of different manufacturers that insist on making their own customisations so it becomes significantly more difficult for the software supplier to reliably cater for that huge range of variations that you just don't get with Apple's products. Although it won't please everybody, a way round that might be to follow Adobe's example and only officially cater for Samsung tablets with the most recent Android operating systems only as they have the largest share of the tablet market: https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/tablet/worldwide
  6. I have used the web version for photo editing and it works well enough although I did not know that it had latterly become contaminated with bad ads (paying the developer a small monthly sum or using a good adblocker stops that). There is also an unofficial electron app: https://github.com/landsman/photopea-desktop
  7. I think it's also worth pointing out that the rather good Photopea is now also available as a Flatpak for easy installation on a Linux distribution: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.vikdevelop.photopea_app
  8. Currently, the only surefire way I know of getting Affinity Photo to work well on Linux is when using Windows as a guest operating system in a virtual environment (VirtualBox or VMware) with 16GB+ of RAM as illustrated in forum member Hartmut Doering's post below: It's either that or trying out potential alternatives like PhotoGimp, Photopea (also now available in Flatpak form), Krita or PhotoLine + Wine.
  9. It turns out that Affinity Photo can work very well on Linux when using Windows as a guest operating system in a virtual environment (VirtualBox or VMware) as illustrated in forum member Hartmut Doering's post below: PS I only recommend trying this method if you have 16GB of RAM or more.
  10. ...plus their presence would then make Linux a far more attractive platform to convert to which will in turn bring in even more sales.
  11. Tbh, I don't think it needs to be rebuilt from scratch. I feel it needs a proactive foundation model that can then fund a handful of full time paid developers and then we'll start to see real progress. Any such developers also ought to have a listening attitude to what users want in terms of features and layout. For example, l think the current layout is sucky and unintuitive and it needs a radical overhaul to be far more user friendly like Photoshop/Affinity Photo/Pixeluvo/Photopea. Essential functions are still missing after all this time and l fully agree with Michael Davis about what Gimp needs to have: 5 Important Features Missing in GIMP Gimp can be partly civilised via PhotoGimp or there are alternatives around like Photopea, Krita or PhotoLine + Wine.
  12. Have you looked more portable devices like the Surface Pros or other equivalent lightweight laptops? Also, have you researched emulator technologies like appetize/cider, ipadian etc to see if they could possibly help you?
  13. In particular, thank you very much for doing this and it is very much appreciated. Now, at least the developers at CodeWeavers know about the most recent promising developments and hopefully they can build on the work that has already been done. I think it is the interest of CodeWeavers to put some effort in trying to get Affinity Photo (and then Designer and Publisher) to work with CrossOver/Wine because that will ultimately boost CrossOver sales if Photo, Designer and Publisher work well with CrossOver.
  14. I agree with this. Indeed, Serif Europe would stand to gain from any unofficial Flatpak because they would get extra revenue and income from doing absolutely nothing and they would have no obligations or liabilities either. A situation like that would be a win-win for everyone.
  15. That is a very valid point. What they might possibly do though is tolerate an unofficial pre-packaged Affinity Photo + Wine prepared by a third party developer (such things do already exist although I won't explicitly name any of them). A situation like that would mean that there would be no legal or commercial liability for Serif Europe.
  16. It has been said of Krita that, "It is a photoeditor hidden in paint application". Seriously though, it has a more sane and logical interface than Gimp does and if only Gimp could mimic the Krita way of doing things.
  17. 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.
  18. Tbh, any form of virtualisation is going to be a relative resource hog which is why other methods are preferable if we can get them working. Also, I like your description of Wine because it is effectively a live translation layer that can work very well. For me, the ideal situation would be to end up where Affinity Photo ran on Linux as well as PhotoLine that gets a Platinum rating for working so well with Wine.
  19. To be entirely fair, it was Affinity forum member Hartmut Doering's original idea to get Affinity Photo running on Linux via the virtual machine route. His innovatory post can be found here:
  20. 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:
  21. 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.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. Have you been able to try it out yet using a VM within Linux and, if so, how did it work? Thanks (l'm guessing that you might have 32GB RAM?).
  24. 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).
  25. Personally, I think that Krita's UI is relatively good although the interfaces of Gimp 😮 and Inkscape could do with improvement. It would seem more efficient to cooperate with the existing set of developers to improve the user interfaces rather than set out on a new path as, for example, the contributors to Glimpse did with their spinoff project.
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