pxlgirl Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 I'm actually a bit of a Linux/Unix geek, and my dream was always to get away from Adobe and have a reasonable alternative. Affinity seems like a good candidate to ditch Adobe, but I'd still have to stick to a Mac. Not that I don't like it, but I do miss my good old Linux sometimes and it would be awesome when I'd be able to push pxls on a penguin system. I'm not a coder, but OS X is based on BSD Unix, so maybe the jump to Linux isn't that high? What do you think? Paul Bravery 1 Quote -- design by pxlgirl | http://www.designbypxlgirl.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted November 20, 2015 Staff Share Posted November 20, 2015 Hi Pxlgirl, This have been requested a few times in the past you can see an official response from our developer team here :) C Paul Bravery 1 Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pxlgirl Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 Hi Pxlgirl, This have been requested a few times in the past you can see an official response from our developer team here :) C Thank you for this! :) I'm already thinking if there could be a distro that could be tweaked and have Affinity exclusively run on it (paid of course). It would be kind of a Linux for designers if that makes sense. Paul Bravery 1 Quote -- design by pxlgirl | http://www.designbypxlgirl.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bravery Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Hi pixlgirl, Count me in! My home file server is an old Windoze XP machine, exclusively on Linux Mint - Mate desktop environment. I'm running Ubuntu Studio in VirtualBox - full screen mode, in it's own 'Space', for Internet browsing, sound editing & some graphics etc. on my iMac. All high end graphics, iMessage, FaceTime, etc. in native Mac. Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pxlgirl Posted November 20, 2015 Author Share Posted November 20, 2015 Jeez, I said I'll have a shot or two when I can replace Adobe with Affinity on my Mac, but I think I'll have the whole bottle when I can run this on Linux! :D Paul Bravery 1 Quote -- design by pxlgirl | http://www.designbypxlgirl.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Hi Pxlgirl, In a nutshell, it's this: the back end of Affinity IS OS agnostic, just like most browsers...fingers crossed. So it's going to be, Mac OS first, then iOS, Windows and with say....500K users and their spending power aka the TUX Pound...Linux! Might take some time though. :( What distro were you referring too? Was it Debian/Ubuntu/BSD/SUSE/Red Hat based? What did you prefer Wintel/Mac OS clone, Gnome/KDE/GNU enviroment? As for me and my favourite distro; follow this post from #11. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/14953-more-fun-with-half-toning/ Don't forget to enjoy Dan's handy work. :) Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Too sad that it´s discontinued :/ But I´ve just looked for an old MB for running it with Linux and spotted a real steal. 4GB RAM, SSD and a 2,2GHz Prozessor and a new Keyboard and battery intact for 180€, so Mac does not have to be expensive. It was a MB 3.x though. And I was a minute to slow. Just saying that you can get decent MB for reasonable prices so only OS X is not too bad at all.... peter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Two years ago I bought my 2009 MBP for £400, refurbished, worth every penny. :D :D :D New WIntel machine? No thanks. anon1 1 Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Too sad that it´s discontinued :/ But I´ve just looked for an old MB for running it with Linux and spotted a real steal. 4GB RAM, SSD and a 2,2GHz Prozessor and a new Keyboard and battery intact for 180€, so Mac does not have to be expensive. It was a MB 3.x though. And I was a minute to slow. Just saying that you can get decent MB for reasonable prices so only OS X is not too bad at all.... Pear OS, RIP. I'll always be a fan of this OS/distro. Quote MacBook pro, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB, OS X 10.11.6 http://www.pinterest.com/peter2111 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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