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There is one way to get the Affinity range of products to work well on Linux and it involves the use of a virtual machine method as described by Hartmut Doering below:
 
 

Thank you so much for sharing these pledges. My comments below are in regards to #1.
Presonus, the developer of the Studio One music production software started off with perpetual licenses and later announced its subscription plan. No surprise, there was intense vocal concern expressed by those who had paid for a perpetual license and gladly willing to pay for updates.
Presonus wisely offered two paths, perpetual licenses with for pay upgrades, and the subscription model which offered access to range of add-ons at no extra cost beyond the monthly subscription fee.
In this situation, Presonus had cast the widest possible net to keep everyone in the fold rather than losing loyal supporters.
Best wishes for the continued success of Affinity!!!
 

I think they have made it more than clear enough that they will not be abandoning the perpetual licence model for the Affinity apps for the foreseeable future, so no, I do not see any problem with continuing to use & support the Affinity apps. Only if they ever renege on that pledge will I have any reason not to trust them.

That's totally not true.
@Greengestalt We were with Serif long before it became Affinity.  Why because Serif actually had software that we could use for the creativity that we needed.  We have stayed with them as they evolved into Affinity but missed some of the attributes in their previous software.  We purchased the whole offering even when our older computers could not actually use it just as support for the company. 
Three months ago we upgraded to new computers and upgraded to the V2 and now to have this news is just a bombshell.  Like so many others we will no longer be adding any additional add-ons or give them any more of our funds.
Our old computers still work and have the older Serif products on them especially PagePlus and CS6.  But we will also be looking for an Affinity alternative.  Unless @Ash can provide a copy of how the contract is clearly written to protect us users and that Affinity still retains the rights and controls, Canva will be able to do whatever they want.
Some reassurance could be provided by removing the requirement to authorise new installations of V2 products online, and any additional online callbacks to be removed.
Pledges are just that pledges...they are not legal binding....

For anyone interest, the current ElementalWarrior-wine 8.x works with both 2.4 and 1.10.

But 1.10 is better. Less flicking(only when open the menu or any popup panels), no issue when saving files, running stable at openGL.

2.4 in openGL is flicking a lot, random crached in 5-10 minutes, crashed when save files(file will be save successfully thought).

Both 1.10 and 2.4 seems fine at vulkan but the performance is terrible.

Hope the wine 9.x will save it.

I'm having a weird issue, I've gone to the Repo and followed the steps and, earlier, it was working fine albeit Affinity Photo was crashing when trying to open some menus and such so I tried to make sure everything had installed correctly, even wiping the prefix, as I'd followed a previous post here before realising it was outdated.
Now, on a fresh prefix, I'm getting this error. I'm not sure if anyone's come across it. I've successfully installed v2.4.0 but, on launch, it crashes with this error.
 
Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Windows.Services.Store.StoreContract, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neut ral, PublicKeyToken=null, ContentType=WindowsRuntime' or one of its dependencies. Path not found.    at Serif.Affinity.Application.OnServicesInitialised(IServiceProvider serviceProvider)    at Serif.Interop.Persona.Application.OnStartup(StartupEventArgs e)    at System.Windows.Application.<.ctor>b__1_0(Object unused)    at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)    at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)    at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl()    at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.CallbackWrapper(Object obj)    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)    at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)    at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.Run(CulturePreservingExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)    at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke()    at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue()    at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)    at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, Boolean& handled)    at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(Object o)    at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs)    at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(Object source, Delegate callback, Object args, Int32 numArgs, Delegate catchHandler)    at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(DispatcherPriority priority, TimeSpan timeout, Delegate method, Object args, Int32 numArgs)    at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr hwnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam)    at MS.Win32.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessage(MSG& msg)    at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrameImpl(DispatcherFrame frame)    at System.Windows.Application.RunDispatcher(Object ignore)    at System.Windows.Application.RunInternal(Window window)    at Photo.Application.Main(String[] args)  

Yes I have been having trouble with affinity, visual gliches on deform layers, or slow, laggy in proyects with many layers.
Ohh understand, I have question bro, Normally in wine buils for games, like proton GE or proton buiilds the DXVK is saved in Proton-wine-example/wine-install/lib/wine/dxvk
but in the ElementalWarrior-wine/wine-install/lib/wine/ it dont exits, where it have the binaries of DXVK?

The other question is related to dxvk cache file that usually is in the same folder that .exe file, it should stay in Designer.exe in my case with affinity designer but it never appear and neither loads my dxvk.conf, still when try set as env variable not work, only can see the hud information if I use it as ENV variable, but if set dxvk.hud = 'full' in the dxvk.conf it never loads.

Could the affinity runs in a virtual machine using the openCL ? without use single passtrought gpu?

thank you very much for all your work !!!

if it's not allowing you to enable it from the settings then it's likely what i theorized before:
Wine does not come with windows-like GPU drivers, it only translates the application calls to the corresponding Linux drivers.
So, the check affinity does to enable OpenCL is likely a GPU driver call, and since those are missing, it simply fallback to not allowing you to enable it
 
also so you get a better idea, the UI is likely using some flavor of Windows Presentation Foundation libraries, and those are using DX9
so we can guess that the UI is using DX9 while the canvas and filters might be using a latter version of DirectX

Hello, did you experienced any low performance issue under wine8 with Vulkan? Such as slow moving pen or slow at dragging any items.
I have tried complie with wine9.4, it doesn't work since the branch of ElementalWarrior-wine is not merge to 9.x yet. I dont know too much with wine, sorry i cant help.

Hi guys, could someone please give me a hand? I've been trying to use patches on Wine 9.4, but unfortunately, they don't seem to be compatible or I didn't use them correctly. I couldn't compile a working Wine 9.
Using the guide you provided @Wanesty at https://codeberg.org/wanesty/affinity-wine-docs, with render=vulkan it works really well for me, however, DXVK loads under d3d9x for me, it detects my GPU 4070 but doesn't allow me to use OpenCL.
I've tried several things like spoofing with dxvk.conf, but I don't quite understand how it behaves, it's very different from games.
I want to ask you guys, does anyone know if it's already possible to use OpenCL? Either by using a new version of Wine with patches or something else?
Could someone help me out? I use Arch Linux and my video card uses proprietary drivers, it's a 4070.
I've tried reading almost all the threads in this forum. My English isn't that good, and I'm not very sure about things. I would appreciate it if you could guide me a little. I'd like to make the most of my GPU with DXVK properly configured.
I have a small project, and despite having a 14th gen i5 processor, I'm starting to feel the workflow slowing down

if you are using a VM on Linux to get the Affinity products to work well on Linux then the following discussion might be of interest:
https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/affinity-designer/14494
It is technically possible to have a Unix-only way of get the Affinity products to work well on Linux...but only using a macOS VM with macOS Catalina 10.15 or later:
https://www.makeuseof.com/macos-ubuntu-linux-virtual-machine/

When you say it flashes, like what constantly or every time you move the cursor over it or just once in a blue moon?

For anyone wondering Affinity Designer / Photo v1 works fine in linux. The only issue is the canvas flashes due to a refresh bug, but it's totally usable.

It would even be cool to have Affinity sell it through the Steam store, since hey, that means you've already got a functional version of Wine going.  I know they won't but I can dream, right?

So thank you, @Wanesty and @ElementalWarrior, I was able to get Photo 2.3 running on Manjaro Linux (in a VM).  I figured Manjaro would be a good a choice since it's Arch-based and up-to-date.  Some screenshots here: https://imgur.com/gallery/G6gtzlJ
A little "trip report": is it usable? I'd say no, not really.  I tried Vulkan and OpenGL, and they both had (different) UI issues.  Some issues with focus (had to tab to change the Gaussian blur values).  It's too bad that I can run games like Elden Ring really well through Steam, but not Affinity Photo.  I wish that Serif would do a little work to make their products just a *teensy* bit more compatible with Linux.  They don't even have to mention it in the patch notes or tell anyone!  Wouldn't it be great if v2.5 (or 3.0?!) just magically worked on Linux.

I've installed Photo 2.4.0 on PopOS 22.04 successfully following the guide.
I've had to force install dotnet and fonts
 
rum ElementalWarrior-8.14 $HOME/.wineAffinity winetricks --force dotnet48 corefonts and switch to gl for renderer to avoid glitches.

Only issue I'm having now is that any preferences I set are not being saved,  the next time I start Photo again, It's back to defaults. Anyone has that working ?

I have just gone through this guide for the first time, and used 2.4.0 as the installer.
From a 2 second glance, it looks like it's working.
I was able to launch 2.4, sign in and saved a blank file without issue.
As for anything further - I haven't had a chance to look into it. So if there were specific functions that may or may not have worked from earlier versions those may still be the case. So take this with grain of salt.

Has anyone bit the bullet and tried to upgrade to 2.4 yet to see if this still works without a reinstall? I haven't dared, yet.

It might also be possibly helpful to check out this discussion below:
 

WOW! Thank you VERY much for this amazing work!!!

thank you for doing this... new to affinity and very pleased with the program...  a adobe user now affinity user. thank you for hand book,  how will you notify where there updates

Thank you, usefull piece of work

Thank you so much for putting this together. I'm sure this is going to be a well used document as I transition from Photoshop to AP! If it was a hard coopy, I'm sure it would be quickly dog-eared lol!
All the Best!

Thank You 

Wow!!! Thank you so much!!