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Ahaha, I don't know any developer who likes writing documentation. I am not doubting Serif words, but man-power is the preferred excuse for companies.. see evernote, this page is driving me crazy : https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/208313748-Evernote-pour-Linux (they explain in the same paragraph, that they are so small they can't build a linux client, but YOU can as a developer)

Well I am not going to say "Developing Affinity for Linux is easy". In fact, once you leave alone Electron apps, and you deal with highly optimized, UI rich, software, it is a lot of work to develop for another platform. BUT for developing something like Affinity Designer/Photo for Ipad, I think they have some wizards in their team. A linux version seems far less challenging to me. Anyway, even if I 100% agree that it is sane to debate, as users we simply have no elements to feed the debate: source code ? How can anybody assess the difficulty of a task without even looking at the source ? resources ? How can anybody say that the development of the windows/OSX/IOS versions will be slowing down when we don't know the team, their skills, the financial health of Serif ? future ? Nobody can predict the impacts of Wayland, the future of Linux Desktop, MS strategy, Apple / Intel relations ... Technologies are full of surprises As users, all we can do is give an opinion about if we would buy Affinity for Linux. Everything else is biased assumptions and ungrounded predictions.

Good catch, I can not hide anymore that I come from France where we spell it "développeur" ^^. Don't take it personnaly, but the whole OSX vs Windows vs Linux debate has been made a thousand times on more specialized forums with more expert people, and it always ends up in troll fights. My intentention was not to insult you or anybody. My point is: Don't focus on which OS is better, or which has a brighter future. As a user, are you interested in Affinity for Linux ? Yes / No ? Then trust Serif for the decision.

Hello all, I am aware that Serif has no plan for linux. Serif also shows every new release that they are open minded, that they listen to their users and our feedbacks. The main purpose of this forum is for them to listen to their customers, for us to give them our feedback. As a customer and fan of Affinity, I give a BIG +1 for Affinity on linux. As a professionnal developper I know that this is not a small job. I own Mac, PC with both Linux and Windows, I rent linux servers. I have a good experience with all this stuff due to my job. As a developer, linux stands above everything else for my usage. In the same way there are different pogramming languages for different usages, there are different OS for different people. As a developer, Affinity is a perfect fit for me. The right balance between ease of use and powerfulness. As a developer, I own more than 3000$ worth of software and something like 5000$ of hardware because I know the value of good software and because I spend most of my life in front of a screen. As a developer, people listen to my advices. A friend of mine bought Affinity Photo following my lead, my wife owns both affinity photo and designer. So I think developers are a good target audience for Serif. This thread is not about Linux vs OSX vs Windows, it is about Affinity for Linux. If you want to defend Serif's stance on the topic, I am not sure you are in a position to do so - except if you are part of Serif corp. The fact that this forum exists and that this thread still is alive is proof they want to listen to their users. So make Serif a favor: let their users express their point of view on the topic and don't pollute their feedbacks with trollish comments about "Is Linux Professionnal, is it a crappy OS, does my mother prefer windows over Linux ...."