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I think the math is wrong here, should discuss numbers rather than percentages, because, even though 90% of the machines run Windows, not every of these would need some specific software.
Windows 11 may contribute to balance change due to its hardware requirements, btw.

I use Linux because proprietary OSes are pushing things to me, like specific software I never use. I remove those, they come back or render the OS unusable - although should not. That is not all, they simply meter me. They have decided to know my habits and push some commercial to me - that never succeeded. Anyway, during this time, the computer may use a lot of its resources for that. It is not in my interest. Why would allow some software to consume my paid power and Internet connection for their needs? Also, I have paid for it $100-300. I pay to stress my computer while I may need it for something else. I would not accept that even it the OS is free (like Android, for example).
Right now I run my Linux OS with the exact apps I need, much lighter and faster than Windows 10 on the same hardware. Also, don't agree to their policy that patronize me like they know better. For instance, many times I've had hard times - as IT specialist - to make Windows upgrade and run again just because I have used a custom dual boot tool.
Now Windows 11 is advertised as nicer. Well, KDE looked like that years ago, not to say it can look however I consider.
I am sure, if you take the Windows OS separately, its core from the bloatware, it's neat and fast! But I can't stand the way it presents itself these days.
On Linux I have, let's say, so much freedom I've had on Windows 7 before, and more!
Next, regarding the users, if some asks for a Linux version of some Affinity product, it means that person won't use it to build apps, isn't it?
There are many applications to use Affinity products under Linux. From gaming graphics to movies production and simple 3d and web. Those fields are pretty well represented under Linux. Photography and publishing, for example,do not pay under Linux because they are not there yet.
 

For years I've been wanting to move off Windows and onto Linux, but without pro apps for a graphic designer, I can't. I understand the chicken and egg situation - No designers using Linux because there's no apps for them. There are no apps for them because all the graphic designers are using Windows/Mac.
I truely do not care what OS I'm using. I started on Macs and loved the interface, but moved to Windows because Mac's hardware stopped giving me ports and storage. (When you live in Africa, we can't just fit in with first world thinking of "everything in the cloud" and just connect wirelessly. We barely have electricity, let alone always-on highsleed, affordable broadband) It was a hardware decision not an OS preference. I support Affinity because I've always been a sucker for the under dog. It's as much of a poke in Adobe's eye as it is a better financial choice. (I suspect that's the case for many Affinity users).
I apply the same attitude to Linux. It's the under dog and want to support it.
I don't even care what distro I have to use. If Affinity announced that their apps only ran on one speciffic Linux distro, eg: Mint KDE, I would choose that distro as my Linux OS. If they chose Manjaro or Suse... done.
Side note... I'd support a kickstarter fund - even if it's to guage the financial viability of Linux support.

The problem with Inskape is that is SVG oriented and lately even SVG standard has become unstable (they've postponed or removed meshes...).
If it needs EPS, must be able to reverse engineer it and support the similar feature forth and back.
Otherwise, for me, it's pretty capable as it is now.
Photoshop/Photo have no match, IMHO.

I confirm the same by running it in Steam with Proton 6.3.

Not yet, I'm kind of reluctant because of document sharing. But really, there's no reason why I shouldn't try it. However, there are more harder-to-replace items of software I'd rather spend my time on trying to find workarounds for. It may come to the point where desperation forces me to go fora Mac running on Linux using hardware pass-through but I'd rather not go down this route.
I have an Office 365 subscription which was a no-brainer for the 6-licences install which gives a family of 4 Office 365 on all their devices and more importantly, 1Tb of cloud storage each. I use Word, Excel, OneNote and if I'm feeling like I really need to punish myself, Outlook. I only wish Thunderbird ported to iOS.
99% of the time, I don't really use the Office suite via a browser and for some archaic reason, prefer to work locally on a device. I'm not massively fond of relying on a constant internet connection to guarantee my productivity. I reserve the right to pull the plug on my internet connection as I feel - or have that situation forced upon me on where online connectivity is poor or simply unavailable. As a species, we are becoming far too complacent and reliant on internet-only technologies and various 'health' apps advising us what we 'should' be doing (exercise/diet etc). I'm happy being able to work offline on a train or a plane and sync my docs when there's an internet connection. Anyway, I am digressing somewhat, but every user has their own reasons for wanting to be in control of how they work.
Good point; I'd actually not thought of that aspect of potential business agreements. If that is the case and let's face it, we'll never get to know what Serif have agreed to, then the only hope lies in the work of people like CodeWeavers.

It's not against the principles of Linux to pay for software. Look at the Linux creator himself: "The Origins of Linux", "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git" interviews.
If I remember well, he said in those that are not many true software developers and mentioned Microsoft and Adobe as being such software creators, besides their policies.
There is a bunch of users or distribution creators that are against paid and/or closed source software, but I don't know any.
I also pay or support free and open software (and closed software too), so you can't say a Linux user spends money, but a bit more selective, having a lot of options already.
Free or not, the people behind must earn their living or the means to continue creating the tools I need/like/use!

GIMP+Inkscape would suffice for general software developers, but there are so many other fields that would benefit from Affinity products: games development for Linux of FX. I bet the ones having a Linux farm or simply few computers would use them.
I think it would, but would also pay.
I think the FOSS extremists are not in question here, they don't ask for Linux versions here anyway and don't work in the fields in discussion for sure.
Indeed, those are very trendy now, despite they depend a lot on the OS too binaries, would not be a problem.
I know from experience that the GIMP workflow is about three times slower by comparison to Photoshop/Affinity, so I would pay for any of those under Linux.
Steam Deck is something to see in the next year... I hope will be as advertised and more, but I'm a desktop guy.
But Microsoft did an interesting move: they drop IE, so Adobe needs to move it's authentication away from it in their CC. What should that be? Edge? There's an Edge for Linux in beta. Chrome? That would be more cross platform as it already exists under MacOS. Their own? Either way, they may have an accessible solution soon and it's know that the latest PS runs fine under Wine, all it's stopping us is the IE integration. This niche may close soon.

If you are a new arrival to this thread and have found that it is locked but still want to show your support for Affinity on Linux, simply like this post

I don't think the number of apps really matter from a user perspective.
It only matters when a specific app doesn't support your OS. For me these are o365 and Affinity Photo; and I don't think 2-3(and many more for some of you) programs missing Linux compatibility is a reason not to develop Affinity to support it either.
(also by the logic that Windows has all the market share anyway so why develop for Linux, why would they  develop Affinity if Adobe has the market share and is much more widely adopted anyways?)

They are indeed interesting statistics and now all the world's 500 top supercomputers run on Linux which displaced assorted Unix variants such as IBM AIX, etc (OS X, BSD and Windows were just not contenders there).
For us, the really important figure is the desktop market share and last summer Netmarketshare (they have now stopped collecting data) was reporting the Linux figure as 3.6% desktop market compared with 9.2% for macOS and 86.7% for Windows and that relatively low Linux market share is why many general commercial software providers are reluctant to make their software products available for Linux. That said, l hope that at some stage the Serif Affinity product range can become available on Linux via Wine/Crossover.
Finally, Linux has gone where macOS and Windows cannot go and Linux can be now be found on two planets since the Ingenuity helicopter that's been flying on Mars has a Linux operating system:
 
 

Interesting stats: https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/linux-statistics/

Interesting stats: https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/linux-statistics/

Interesting stats: https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/linux-statistics/

...anything. And imagine small companies that would buy maybe twice the computers to achieve this...

...anything. And imagine small companies that would buy maybe twice the computers to achieve this...

That said, the most efficient workflow might be achieved by using the same machine for processing and editing. A positive start along that route might be, for example, looking into how Affinity Photo could possibly work well and CrossOver/Wine and I hope that at some stage a constructive dialogue between the sets of developers concerned can be developed.

yeah you would think it would make more sense financially to buy a few *gasp* windows PC's or a few Mac Minis and some licenses of Affinity if it gets the job done. 

Would really appreciate a Linux port. The image below was my first piece composited with Affinity and was quite proud of the results. The raster/vector interoperability was such a huge workflow improvement. But I got tired of Windows and switched up to Linux (Elementary OS) and haven't turned back. After that my works were then composited with GIMP but with severe limitations. Adjustment layers are still not implemented in GIMP, so editing is destructive for the most part. Using GIMP/Inkscape isn't always perfect but I'm doing what I can.

@wonderings, @Redsandro explained so well, although,  my story is a bit different. Regardless I may have all these available on Windows lately, Winmdows simply makes my life hard with a lot of blotware and processing not in my interest, but for their metering. So, can't really go back while I have so flexible OS available now.
 

You're describing the current status quo. All the people in this topic do not like the status quo and are looking for ways to use their preferred OS.
If you want to understand the rationale here, try to empathize with the following: Many development tool chains are easier to use on Linux. For a long time tools like Docker didn't even work on Windows or OSX. Many developers left Windows for Linux, and in an attempt to keep these users in the Windows ecosystem, Microsoft invested $7.5 billion in Github, Mono, VS Code for Linux, WSL, WSL2, Linux kernel support etc, but it's still just not as nice as developing on Linux.
Perhaps big studios can have multiple dedicated computers with fulltime employees on them. But an Indie developer working from the living room dinner table does not want to buy two computers. They just want to do development and design on one computer, on one operating system. They often spend 80% of their time developing and 20% of their time in design, so Linux/development wins over Windows/design.
So they did buy a computer that works with 80% of the software needed. This topic is about the other 20%, more specifically Affinity Design and Affinity Photo. 
If it was the other way around, and 80% of their time was design, they might prefer a Windows computer in stead, but with this much usage, they would probably be justified in purchasing the expensive monthly Adobe CC subscription in stead of the more affordable Affinity suite.
Affinity is a more interesting indie developer option than Adobe. And Linux is a more interesting indie developer option than Windows. Therefore, Affinity should run on Linux.

I have Affinity Photo and Designer licences for OSX.
And Photo, Designer and Publisher for Win.
But I have to switch to Linux, probably Manjaro.
It will be cool to find my app on Linux even if I have to pay one more time for that.

Would you say Adobe is a major software developer in the graphics and design field?
In the last years, did you see some attempt to make it work reliably on the Wine side?
Lately, since Affinity Photo 1.9, could not even be installed with Wine, I expect it to never be fixed or maybe too late to matter.
Give up your hopes and find alternatives or stick to Windows/MacOS!

Overall thinking, this is a shame, there is no really good software (beside Krita and Blender) that can produce print ready results.
I understand, linux users would love to have an open source alternative, and that Serif as a company need to make money, as they develop great apps, and neet it to get company running, and earn - this is perfectly fine.
I understand standpoint that *some* of Linux users whoes says that on that system souldn't be any paid software (or at least commercial in any form), in the end this is fully opened source envirioment (beside some examples like enterprise solutions etc.). Just look at problems with graphic card drivers, You need to install *proprietary * drivers alone in some distros, and on some this is just impossible to do, cause the open-source nature.
I also understand, that Serif is worried about small Linux userbase that would buy software on Linux, and that they cannot get back money and reources invested to port their software. And also that, there is so many Linux flavours, hardvare combinations etc. that would have negative influence on porting software. Just imagine situation when users buys software and it's laggy or evend to not run, on system just because there is some differencies in kernels/x-driver or something else.
But I cannot understand that *any* of big players on graphic design software companies field, cannot  at least try to make Linux users life easier, trough a ports or at least improve usage by helping Wine team.
Personally I think that would give only good PR, and first company that step inside Linux world, would be for first a pioneer, and for second *winner* on that field, which could be a perminent trend, an maybe which some time earn new userbase. I know many fellow indie gamedevs, working strongly in Linux space, and having only second partition with Windows for graphic workflow, and they would love to play around only on Linux.
And now Me, for most time I'm a proffesional graphic designer (working in this industry over 15 years), but in recent time as a hobby rather than a job, I'm building mobile apps and games, mostly working on them on Linux, and this would be perfect when i wasn't forced to reboot to second os every time when i need to modify or make new assets. So - yes, I would love to see Affinity software on Linux platform.
Sorry for a long post, but this is only my thinking about this case.

I switched completely from MacOS to Linux 2 years ago. My reason was, that the hardware becomes more and more buggy (for such expensive hardware);
(and more critical for me) the OS drops more and more open standards and try to engage a more strict proprietary ecosystem...
Me as developer and designer is important to have a system that is fast, secure and customizable.
But what I saw, that the quality of the OS becomes really bad after Steve Jobs dies - the new focus was only on mobile business (which brings the most profit for Apple);
so they only put effort into iOS, but not on MacOS    

I think this is the reason why they push their own silicon and will move iPadOS to Macs in near future.
This means, you have to install apps ONLY by app store which dictates the prices and can choose what apps will run on your Mac

I really love to use Linux as my daily friend. It is so much easier to use nowadays;
but the big players still did not migrate their tools to Linux (yet)

Hope Serif and Adobe migrate their tools soon - MacOS becomes more and more less important to the market (now 3rd place of OS market share) and Linux is growing fast also in private sector...