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You might care to remain polite in view of your posting history and your recent run in with the forum moderators. While Linux reigns supreme on servers and supercomputers, Serif Europe and Adobe Corporation make their products available for desktop and laptop computers only and not servers or supercomputers. I do my bit by encouraging people to convert to Linux if they are annoyed by Windows 10 and 11. If you want to blame someone then blame the wealthy Linux Foundation and their billion dollar corporate members. They are the ones who can and should be promoting desktop Linux. They would benefit from that as they would then have many more trainees who already have direct experience of using and dealing with Linux. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

I wish Penguins were legion but they're not yet and that is the problem. The current 4% Linux desktop market share must get up to 10%+ before many software companies will consider porting over softwares to Linux. Be a Linux advocate instead and help people transition from Win 10 and Win 11 to Linux. Personally, I recommend Linux Mint Mate to new converts as it is so logical, familiar and easy to use (although I don't personally use it).

Microsoft is offering security updates for $30 a year and the anti-virus companies will still be supporting Win 10 as well. I have to differ though about the description of Linux. I have been using it for years and it is stable and reliable. It doesn't get borking updates either unlike Windows (all because the testing personnel were sacked back in 2014 to cut costs). That said, Linux needs to grow its domestic market share first and then companies might start to make more software available for Linux.

Probably because they are currently at least two orders of magnitude smaller than Adobe Corporation and they therefore cannot do all the things that the Adobe does. That said, there are already plenty of other competent non-Adobe softwares out there that can probably meet your needs.

Tbh, I don't think it would be worth expending the effort of entering that market because it is already a saturated market crowded with multiple software alternatives and I think would be better if they continued to work on improving their existing three software products.

The anti-virus and anti-malware companies aren't stupid (unlike MS) and they will almost certainly be offering Win 10 protection for a few years yet. The Affinity softwares can run well in a Wndows 10 VM on a Linux machine. Personally, I wouldn't seeing a bit of cooperation between CodeWeavers and Serif Europe so that the Affinity softwares can at least start to work reasonably well using the CrossOver software.

I am actually surprised that CodeWeavers with their commercial CrossOver product haven't made the three Affinity products a priority (think of CrossOver as a commercial version of Wine). That would do wonders for their popularity and bring in more $$$. They have a contact option and forums so you and others could let them know that you all would like the Serif Affinity products to be a higher priority for Linux users. https://www.codeweavers.com/contact-us

That is a very valid point to make although it is also worth pointing out that since the Affinity range have not been ported over for Linux, that particular piece of software is currently not a direct competitor on the Linux platform. Similarly, I have suggested PhotoLine + Wine as a potential alternative to Photo for Linux users only. I should add that I do recommend trying out the Affinity range to anyone using Windows or macOS as an alternative to that other range of extortionate range of perma-rental softwares from the kind of clay used as a building material company. Professional photographer Joe Cristina has endorsed the Affinity range and astrophotographer Nik Szymanek uses Affinity Photo full time to produce stunning images of the cosmos.

The problem there is the market fragmentation of both makes and models of Android tablets and the number of Android versions that are still in use. Under those current circumstances, if someone wants to use the Affinity products on a tablet then the only thing to do is buy a new, or used nearly new, iPad.

^ I fully agree with this and the only other thing I would like to add is that being polite (and not rude/offensive) with constructive complaints, missing/wanted features, etc would help as well.

GIMP GNU Image Manipulation Program?

I assume that files produced by newer versions are not backwards compatible with previous software versions. Do you have any access to computers with 2.6 on that you could then save your later files to either previous Publisher version editions or to external formats such as INDD format which could then be read by Publisher 2.5.7?

With respect, Canva would not have bought out Serif Europe if they had been failing. They bought Serif Europe because they had come up with some very effective and cost efficient alternatives to the Adobe products. Indeed, I always recommend the Affinity range to anyone using Windows or macOS. It is not Serif Europe's fault that the Linux desktop market share is so low and so those of us who are Linux users can promote Linux as an alternative to the unwanted and unnecessary Windows 11 or the expensive Apple products. Only when Linux's desktop market share gets to 10%+ will software companies starting thinking about porting over their softwares to Linux as well.

One of the advantages of the excellent PhotoLine for Linux users is that while the developers don't make a full Linux version, they do take care to make PhotoLine work well with the Wine compatibility layer so that software can run on Linux computers.

In part though, that is a Catch 22 situation. More people might want good quality creative software on a non-Windows operating system and so they have to go for macOS. If that same software was also available for Linux then I suspect that many customers would then go down the Linux route instead but they can't do that yet because the companies that produce the good graphics software won't produce Linux versions because the market share is currently too low to justify porting over the software and so the vicious cycle continues.

The huge problem there though is Linux's low domestic market share of 4% compared with macOS on 14%. That market share needs to significantly increase first before many other software companies will port over their products to Linux. It is plain market forces in operation. These software companies have to make money so there is zero chance that they will make their software free and open-source. That is just not going to happen. I am a full time Linux user and I am happy to pay for and use proprietary software such as Softmaker Office, Pixeluvo (think Affinity Photo lite), VueScan and the rest because I want to get things done on Linux. Currently, the Affinity software range can be run on a Linux computer via a WIndows 10 VM or with varying levels of success through the assorted Wine variants and that's all we can do for now.

One option there might be have your Linux computer but also have Windows 10 installed as a virtual machine within Linux and with the Serif softwares installed on the guest Windows 10 operating system.

Tbh, I don't think that Serif Europe or other software providers will make Linux versions until Linux's domestic market share starts to match that of macOS. That said, some companies do already make the effort to make their software compatible with Wine (PhotoLine) or they make actual Linux versions (VivaDesigner).

Yes, we need more precise descriptions of what goes wrong and what is the trigger for that particular bug and we need less general overall whining.

It is the low Linux domestic user base that (4% market share compared with macOS at 14%) that is responsible for companies not providing a Linux version because it not commercially viable at that low level. Instead of the perpetual whining and spamming of this forum with exactly the same request every few weeks, these same Linux users ought instead to become Linux evangelists and start recruiting new Linux converts to boost that low Linux market share. It is only then that we will see some change. Just for the record, I am a 100% Linux user these days and Pixeluvo meets my current image editing needs (think Affinity Photo lite). https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-pixeluvo-package-on-ubuntu/ .deb file (Ubuntu, Debian) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pixeluvo .rpm file (Fedora, Suse) ^ Those are trial versions and In order to unlock the advanced features, payment must be made - http://www.pixeluvo.com/buynow/

Tbh, it would be far more potentially productive to promote and vote for the second option here: https://appdb.winehq.org/votestats.php

Again, I see and understand the frustration although it must be remembered that Serif Europe is a couple of magnitudes smaller than its huge great competitor that is Adobe corporation and Serif Europe staff numbers are equally smaller. That said, perhaps there is the potential option for Serif Europe to perhaps pause product development for a few months and instead concentrate staff time on fixing existing bugs although it requires that everyone reports the bugs in this very forum.

Try using a Windows 10 VM inside Linux instead: https://christitus.com/windows-inside-linux/

If your main computer has sufficient capability, you could switch over to Linux Mint and then use Affinity and ClipStudio in a Windows 10 VM, for example.

^ That was the good old benevolent days of Sun Microsystems... before they were taken over by nefarious Oracle and I wish that they had remained independent (same applies to the VMware and Red Hat takeovers).