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Hi folks! I wanted to report a bug I encountered yesterday and found my fix for. Upon launching any of the three programs, they would get stuck with just the splash screen saying "Initializing..." until the following message appeared: Naturally, this was confusing, as all Affinity programs were working just fine the day before when I'd updated them, and I've never touched my firewall settings! My setup and required details: Computer Specs OS: Windows 11 Home, version 22H2, OS Build 22621.3007 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9300H CPU @ 2.40GHz RAM: 16.0 GB System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Using all three programs, Photo, Designer, and Publisher Using the latest release versions (2.3.1) Yes, I reproduced it, and found the issue + workaround (see below) What I tried (without success): Restarting my PC Uninstalling and re-installing all Affinity Products Once with the MSIX installer and "app" Once with the EXE installer and "programs" Adjusting and opening up my Firewall settings Today (as I post this) I have found the issue: Hidden Folders! Many programs on my PC have created folders on my PC at C:\Users\[my username] that start with a dot; as I understand it, these are common with cross-platform programs and normally get hidden by Mac OSX and Linux machines, but not necessarily by Windows, and they were starting to clutter my User directory, so I marked them and the contents inside as hidden. Shortly after, my problem above began. As soon as I un-hid the folder C:\Users\[my username]\.affinity, lo and behold, the programs started right up, and when I hid the folder again, the issue returned. My other PC running a different AMD setup with Windows 11 had the exact same issue when I hid and unhid the .affinity folder. Possible cause in the program: According to a Stack Overflow page I found while looking up how to hide the folders in the first place (as well as another page with further details linked from there), it appears that if a Windows program calls CreateFile with the CREATE_ALWAYS flag but no definition for FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN, operations will fail on hidden files. While I can't speak to what the Affinity programs are doing while initializing, I imagine the issue could be this, or something similar. I hope this is helpful for others who have a similar problem, and for Affinity developers to hopefully fix the issue when it's possible to do so.

I work professionally doing CGI and Linux workstations can be tailored to user needs and even workflows and kept stable and sane. That's a productivity boost. I don't care that much if it's free or not, we have budgets, but the most expensive to us is losing work hours because the system updates, changes in different machines causes issues... there are many things that get out of wack in Windows we can't easily afford. Mac products have that somewhat sorted by limiting hardware and tailoring the experience and configuration possible to make it manageable. And colour management it's reasonable and, most importantly, fixed for almost all macs. For a heavy 3D production environment Macs are not really a choice due to some hardware limitations. That is why I so wish we had Affinity software for Linux. In some scenarios is really a great bonus to have it right there, instead of dedicating workstations just for that use, either windows or mac machines. Dual boot sometimes doesn't solve the issue at all and presents other challenges. I thank all of you for taking the time to test and evolve the solutions presented here, hopefully until we find a way to actually work with Affinity software in Linux, be it native or with WINE. It's really appreciated and some of the less Linux tech savvy part of the community truly hopes you succeed. Thanks.

Currently, the only way I know of getting Affinity Photo to really work well on Linux is to use a Windows or macOS/Sosumi virtual machine on Linux (there are loads of guides online on how to do this). I wish it were otherwise, but Serif Europe have made it all too clear that they are not going to bother with Linux although they are thankfully fine with us discussing how to try to get Affinity Photo to work on Linux.

Those that primarily do VFX and 3D work, yes: That shouldn't be too surprising though as many of them would be moving from other UNIX platforms (IRIX from SGI was at one time a major player in this field) rather than moving from Windows. Linux is a much more natural shift from UNIX platforms than Windows or macOS would be. Many more are likely using Linux for servers. Most workstations in non-VFX post houses are more likely to still be either macOS or Windows. As has been pointed out, the apps simply aren't there yet - some are, but not enough of those which are currently in heavy use.

Snoopy20111, thanks for posting this. That was exactly my problem. I hid those dotted folders, just like they would be hidden in Linux, and a week or so later when I went to launch Affinity, all 3 programs failed with the same error!

Hi, I use Designer on Windows 10, however Windows becomes buggier and worse with each new update, causing issues for me for many reasons. I am a programmer and work a lot with 2D/3D graphics and find Linux to be the best platform for development as it is more stable and give more control of my system. I make extensive use of Designer for textures and sprites as it has some great tools for design. I have not been able to get Designer to work properly with software such as Wine and PlayOnLinux as it results in missing interface elements for logging into my Affinity account. There is currently a lot of interest in Linux since there is a lot of support for games on Linux coming from AAA studios and Corporations with a lot of gamers jumping the Windows ship and switching over to Linux with the help of Valve Proton and DXVK. It would be greatly appreciated if Affinity products could get Linux support and I would gladly help to test and port it over to Linux as the market share grows.

Yep. Process of getting development, event if the user base reached more than 1 million and active Linux machine, is to complicated ( stack related on Windows and Mac System dependency )

Hallo liebe Community, Auf langer Sicht möchte ich komplett auf open Source für die Arbeit umsteigen. Also Linux mit Libre Office, Libre CAD... Als Architekt möchte ich Auf Affinity jedoch auf keinen fall verzichten. Daher meine frage: Ist eine LinuxVariante geplant? Was wäre nötig? ... Linux ist in den Letzten Jahren mit seinen diversen Distriubutionen eine gute und teilweise bessere Alternative als Windows und MacOs. Als privater Anwender wäre ich bereit etwas mehr als den aktuellen Preis für Affinity zu bezahlen, wenn dadurch Linux Standardmäßig unterstützt würde. Lösungen wie es über auf eine Virtualle Maschine laufen zu lassen kommen nicht in Frage. Als Endnutzer will ich es einfach haben zu installieren, updaten und starten. Ich bin neugierig auf Ihre Antwort und bitte auf Deutsch. Mit freundlcihen Grüßen

So I managed to get this working with some trial and error using the codeberg instructions so thank you Wanesty and ElementalWarrior for figuring this out, I'll catalogue the pitfalls here in case they're of any use before I ask my question relating to an issue I'm having: System: Linux Mint 21.3, intel i3-10100F@3.6x4, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Geforce RTX 3050 8GB. Annotations: 1. DO NOT use sudo commands except for the sections on creating folders/copying files to outside of the home directory, which you will 100% need root for eg: sudo cp $HOME/Documents/rum/rum /usr/local/bin/rum sudo mkdir /opt/wines 2. Use full absolute directory pathing. $HOME just caused issues further down the setup and had parts installing in different places (especially if you're using sudo to brute force some of the permissions here). using '/home/user/' in place of every $HOME in every instance was effective way through all this. 3. You need to do the extra part in bold here, or you'll just get a warning that dotnet48 is 'broken'. rum ElementalWarrior-8.14 $HOME/.wineAffinity winetricks --force dotnet48 corefonts 4. The vulkan display changes in the 'tips and tricks' proved fairly essential for decent usability, the flickering gets absurd. Apart from all that, I followed the codeberg instructions and got it working. Now for my issue, Tables. They really slow the application down and will increase crash likelihood (didn't have a single crash until I started experimenting with tables), I'm guessing it's a memory issue of some kind. It doesn't take a big table either, but the bigger the table the harder it falls. Just getting the table tool and creating one that crosses an a5 portrait width in a document that's only a few pages in size is enough to start things chugging. I've experimented with running it as a VM, regediting some direct3D memory, or playing with the performance settings - none of which seem to help. I'm hoping people are also experiencing this or hopefully have a solution for it.

Part of the problem is that there are many codecs you can't get on Linux. This comes on to the problem of licences... Linux is a REAL mess for licences.

i really think you underestimate what could come from having Serif's software suite on linux they have, with the correct marketing and enough effort, the power of making linux a viable graphic related work environment it already is one for development, VFX, music production, office work, day to day use and gaming from my perspective, a lot of people are getting fed up with Microsoft and adobe's monopoly think about companies, as people not earning money directly from a software are less likely to buy it anyway this is why education licenses of software are a thing, and this is also why Davinci Resolve has a free version: it lets you learn the software on your side/at school so the company that will hire you will buy the software/ already have commercial licenses

We all get that you don't need or consider AI an important feature and I agree there are other priorities. Still, it's up the company to make its market research to know the demands it could provide for. They know better than us. About a Linux version, I'd like it. However, it doesn't considerate the current users, while other new features do, so it's less appealing unless they're missing a good niche, which I believe they are not, since Linux users have other open source alternatives and most Linux users aren't going for paid proprietary software. But just for curiosity sake, based on what you consider a Linux version more important and viable than AI? Are you aware of the costs not only to port it to different Linux kernels but also to keep it always up to date and compatible with its drivers? They would have to hire a keep a new team dedicated to it. Believe me, it's way different than implementing a resource that most graphical softwares are already doing. I'm not saying that AI is that top priority, but certainly isn't lower or less viable than a Linux version.

There is no commercial reason for Serif to do Linux versions of anything. This is a fact that has been done to death every time there is a religious outbreak of Linux fever.

So is money, seriously, the only determining factor? Is that why this upstart company dared to enter Adobe's space and take on that Titan? The Linux community represents that same sort of vision. If you build it (Linux version)... they will come.

Instaled correct, but when launch, crash: [info@info-virtualbox winewow64-build]$ rum ElementalWarrior-8.14 $HOME/.wineAffinity wine "$HOME/.wineAffinity/drive_c/Program Files/Affinity/Photo 2/Photo.exe" Rumming /opt/wines/ElementalWarrior-8.14 (wine-7.9-8960-gc12ed146994) in: /home/info/.wineAffinity 011c:fixme:seh:WerRegisterRuntimeExceptionModule (L"C:\\windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework64\\v4.0.30319\\mscordacwks.dll", 000006447F100000) stub 011c:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION 012c:err:ole:CoGetContextToken apartment not initialised 011c:fixme:ntdll:RtlGetCurrentProcessorNumberEx (000000000041BCF8) :semi-stub 011c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x0 0xc0a 000000000041B540 0000000000000000 000000000041B544) returning a dummy value (current locale) 011c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x0 0xc0a 000000000041B540 0000000000B39B60 000000000041B544) returning a dummy value (current locale) 011c:fixme:virtual:NtFlushProcessWriteBuffers stub 011c:fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L".NET Runtime"): stub 011c:fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (00000000CAFE4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x00000402,0000000000000000,0x0001,0x00000000,000000000041C370,0000000000000000): stub 011c:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Application: Photo.exe\n" 011c:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Framework Version: v4.0.30319\n" 011c:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.\n" 011c:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Exception Info: System.TypeInitializationException\n" 011c:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Stack:\n" 011c:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L" at Serif.Affinity.Application..ctor()\n" 011c:err:eventlog:ReportEventW L" at Photo.Application.Main(System.String[])\n" 011c:fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (00000000CAFE4242) stub Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Serif.Affinity.Application' thre w an exception. ---> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttrib ute' from assembly 'mscorlib, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089'. at System.ModuleHandle.ResolveMethod(RuntimeModule module, Int32 methodToken, IntPtr* typeInstArgs, Int32 typeIn stCount, IntPtr* methodInstArgs, Int32 methodInstCount) at System.ModuleHandle.ResolveMethodHandleInternalCore(RuntimeModule module, Int32 methodToken, IntPtr[] typeIns tantiationContext, Int32 typeInstCount, IntPtr[] methodInstantiationContext, Int32 methodInstCount) at System.ModuleHandle.ResolveMethodHandleInternal(RuntimeModule module, Int32 methodToken, RuntimeTypeHandle[] typeInstantiationContext, RuntimeTypeHandle[] methodInstantiationContext) at System.Reflection.CustomAttributeData..ctor(RuntimeModule scope, CustomAttributeRecord caRecord) at System.Reflection.CustomAttributeData.GetCustomAttributes(RuntimeModule module, Int32 tkTarget) at System.Reflection.CustomAttributeData.GetCustomAttributesInternal(RuntimeAssembly target) at System.Resources.ManifestBasedResourceGroveler.GetNeutralResourcesLanguage(Assembly a, UltimateResourceFallba ckLocation& fallbackLocation) at System.Resources.ResourceManager.CommonSatelliteAssemblyInit() at System.Resources.ResourceManager..ctor(String baseName, Assembly assembly) at Serif.Affinity.ResourceManager.Initialise(Assembly assembly, String resourceName) at Serif.Affinity.Application..cctor() --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at Serif.Affinity.Application..ctor() at Photo.Application.Main(String[] args) wine: Unhandled exception 0xe0434352 in thread 11c at address 0000000174013BC7 (thread 011c), starting debugger... Unhandled exception: 0xe0434352 in 64-bit code (0x00000174013bc7). 0148:fixme:dbghelp:x86_64_find_runtime_function RunTime_Function outside IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_EXCEPTION unimplemented yet! 0148:fixme:dbghelp:x86_64_find_runtime_function RunTime_Function outside IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_EXCEPTION unimplemented yet! Register dump: rip:0000000174013bc7 rsp:000000000041de60 rbp:000000000041ecf9 eflags:00000206 ( - -- I - -P- ) rax:000000000041dec0 rbx:0000000000a820c0 rcx:000000000041de80 rdx:0000000000000000 rsi:0000000000000001 rdi:0000000000000001 r8:000006447f100000 r9:000000000041e018 r10:0000000000000059 r11:00000644800121d0 r12:0000000000000005 r13:000000000041dff8 r14:00000000e0434352 r15:0000000000a820c0 Stack dump: 0x0000000041de60: 000000000041de80 0000000000000000 0x0000000041de70: 0000000000000005 0000000000a820c0 0x0000000041de80: 00000001e0434352 0000000000000000 0x0000000041de90: 0000000174013bc7 0000000000000005 0x0000000041dea0: ffffffff80131534 0000000000000000 0x0000000041deb0: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0x0000000041dec0: 000006447f100000 0000000000a820c0 0x0000000041ded0: 000000000041e0e8 0000064400000001 0x0000000041dee0: 0000064480012020 000006447f1682ec 0x0000000041def0: 0000000000000059 000006447f1d1010 0x0000000041df00: fffffffffffffffe 0000000000000000 0x0000000041df10: 0000064480012020 0000064402000059 Backtrace: =>0 0x00000174013bc7 in kernelbase (+0x13bc7) (0x0000000041ecf9) 1 0x0006447f206e39 in clr (+0x106e39) (0x0000000041ecf9) 2 0x0006447f59bfb4 in clr (+0x49bfb4) (0x0000000041ecf9) 3 0x0006447f59c906 in clr (+0x49c906) (0x0000000041ecf9) 4 0x0006447f61b99b in clr (+0x51b99b) (0x0000000041ecf9) 5 0x0006447f61b9a9 in clr (+0x51b9a9) (0x0000000041ecf9) 6 0x0006447f522eb4 in clr (+0x422eb4) (0x0000000041ecf9) 7 0x0006447f143470 in clr (+0x43470) (0x0000000041ecf9) 8 0x0006447f26b848 in clr (+0x16b848) (0x0000000041ecf9) 0x00000174013bc7 kernelbase+0x13bc7: add $0xc8, %rsp Modules: Module Address Debug info Name (176 modules, 8 for wow64 not listed) PE 0000000019de0000-000000001a29e000 Deferred mscorlib PE 000000001cba0000-000000001cef0000 Deferred presentationcore PE 0000000055600000-0000000055950000 Deferred presentationcore PE 000000007a800000-000000007ad8c000 Deferred opengl32 PE 000000007c000000-000000007c4be000 Deferred mscorlib PE 0000000100000000-000000010392e000 Deferred serif.interop.persona PE 0000000103930000-000000010725e000 Deferred serif.interop.persona PE 0000000107260000-0000000107809000 Deferred libicu PE 0000000107810000-0000000107d77000 Deferred libpdfium PE 0000000107d80000-00000001082a5000 Deferred pdflib PE 00000001082b0000-000000011b6cd000 Deferred libpersona PE 000000011b6d0000-000000011cb72000 Deferred wined3d PE 000000011cb80000-000000011cc95000 Deferred libepub PE 000000011cca0000-000000011cf92000 Deferred libgeometry PE 000000011cfa0000-0000000120ab5000 Deferred libraster PE 0000000120ac0000-0000000120b7a000 Deferred libheif PE 0000000120b80000-0000000121032000 Deferred libmetadata PE 0000000121040000-0000000121180000 Deferred libxmp PE 0000000121180000-00000001215ac000 Deferred libocio PE 00000001215b0000-0000000124d89000 Deferred librenderer PE 0000000124d90000-0000000125283000 Deferred libstory PE 0000000125290000-000000012534c000 Deferred libhunspell PE 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Dwarf-4-5 kernelbase PE 0000000178000000-00000001781a4000 Deferred kernel32 PE 0000000180000000-0000000180ed2000 Deferred serif.affinity PE 00000001cb930000-00000001cba7b000 Deferred dxgi PE 00000001ccdd0000-00000001cce8b000 Deferred rsaenh PE 00000001ce760000-00000001ce791000 Deferred kerberos PE 00000001d0e20000-00000001d1322000 Deferred oleaut32 PE 00000001d4930000-00000001d49ce000 Deferred netapi32 PE 00000001d8c90000-00000001d8db7000 Deferred advapi32 PE 00000001dbc50000-00000001dbf6c000 Deferred dwrite PE 00000001de160000-00000001de47c000 Deferred urlmon PE 00000001eaf60000-00000001eb024000 Deferred sechost PE 0000000206620000-000000020667b000 Deferred d3d12 PE 000000020b860000-000000020be08000 Deferred ole32 PE 00000002169d0000-0000000216f91000 Deferred user32 PE 0000000223d50000-0000000223e15000 Deferred winspool PE 0000000228280000-00000002285cc000 Deferred msvcrt PE 000000023bc00000-000000023c9a2000 Deferred shell32 PE 0000000250cd0000-0000000250d3a000 Deferred mpr PE 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For that shown timeline (?), nothing! - Instead you would have to look after what's available nowadays as similar products for Linux platforms and the peoples demand for having the Affinity suite for Linux. Further having some poll thread with a counter, should possibly give some vague overview, about how high the Linux community demands for that is or might be.

The number of GNU/Linux users is not small at all, it may seem that way because there is no real data, but it is far from being small. Following your argument, I do not understand what Valve's business model is to invest millions of dollars and have more than 100 developers on staff to support GNU/Linux. On the other hand, the use of GNU/linux is found among a large number of professional users, who are also the ones who buy licenses. Sometimes companies have to be bold.

Hello Callum. Thank you for your response. Crossover is a commercial version of Wine, a compatibility layer software for Linux, MacOS etc. which is used for running Windows software on those platforms. As for support I am perfectly aware that I can't expect any in my case and I am perfectly fine with that. I am just glad that I can finally use Affinity apps on Linux. Live long and prosper 🖖

Rebuilding for a different instruction set is trivial compared to changing your 3M line of code software to use an entirely different set of window, filesystem, keychain, network, etc libraries. Drop the criticism of Serif on this thread. They don't "simply" support Linux for the same reason not everyone here is debugging, patching and upstreaming wine code. It is time consuming, not straightforward, and requires expertise. The more people rag on Linux support on serifs own forum, the more likely they will be to just lock every thread talking about Linux.

And there we go... I give you solid engineering, and you come back with "lets agree to disagree" Nope. The reality is Linux is not in its current form workable as a major desktop OS, It is not commercially viable for most commercial developers to target.

Let's agree to disagree. 🙂 Linus Torvald is the creator of Linux. Not the person who decides what people choose to use it for.

Ditto! Now happily running 100% Linux on desktop and laptop. Ready to buy Affinity Photo again as soon as it is available! Hint hint...

just because linux users don't go outside doesn't mean we don't exists :( /j

Thanks for sharing your viewpoint, it is interesting to read it. I wish you well and when you visit a coffee shop to make business decisions on the customers which go there, a good latte. EDIT No sarcasm was meant in the above text. I bought the Steam Deck and was pleasantly surprised to be able to start up many beloved and used programs like Davinci Resolve among a 3D Application and other programs on it. As always depending on the use cases, Linux can be a viable solution.

Around Market share of Chrome OS ( that utilize Linux and or wine)