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1 hour ago, pixelstuff said:

With Google officially creating a desktop interface for Android, Linux desktop may be in danger of getting usurped by Android as a leading OS for laptops and desktop computers. Although I guess it may depend on whether Google tries to make Android officially installable on any computer.

On a related note, I'd still like to see an interface switching version of Affinity Photo for Windows that uses the desktop interface with mouse/keyboard and the iPad touch interface when Windows is in tablet mode. The same kind of interface switching feature might be excellent for the new high powered Android tablets with a desktop mode.

The irony here is that Android is currently the most commonly used Linux based operating system.

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Hello there, I just make an account to pitch in my three cents on the subject.

I am absolutely fine with going extra step and following methods like the ones prepared by user "Elemental Warrior" to emulate Affinity on Linux. Sadly it seems there are bugs inherited to the way emulators handle some of Affinity code, which is of course not Serif's responsibility but it feels so close, inches away from satisfactory usability.

I know Serif is competing against a giant that Adobe is and needs to "pic their battles" but it does feel like helping the apps run better on emulators would alone be a huge help that would require vastly less resources than building and maintaining a third platform release.

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3 hours ago, Calv said:

Now here we are in 2025, MS is once again telling everyone to buy a new PC, and this time a significant number of people are making the switch to Linux

MS did the Trusted Platform Module because of the cooperates wanting it.   This started years ago in fact ISO/IEC 11889 was done in 2009  (though the work started several years before) and the finalized version 2011.  "TPM ready" motherboards have been around since 2010 (that is 15 years ago)  and motherboards with a built-in TPM have been the norm for about a decade.  How many people are running PC's that are over 15 years old? not many ?  

As for a "significant" number of people moving to Linux...  Well Linux cycles between 2% and 5% of the desktop market.  At the moment it is about 4%, IT has been there before, several times. A "significant" number of people will have moved to Linux when it more than doubles its market share to double figures and 90% of those are on the same distro.   

 

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Posted
5 hours ago, Calv said:

I stayed with Windows for years only because of Affinity Photo. I shot film as a professional for about a decade until I switched to digital circa 2003. Then I shot digital until a few years ago when I retired and opened an unrelated business. Having laid the camera aside, I switched to Linux and was quite happy with it, but once the photography bug bit again I looked around and found Affinity still hadn't been ported to Linux! So what did I do? Switched back to Windows, of course! 

Now here we are in 2025, MS is once again telling everyone to buy a new PC, and this time a significant number of people are making the switch to Linux. I will almost certainly be among their number, and it just kills me that it will probably mean giving up Affinity. (Incidentally, this is also why I have held off buying the full suite of products.) 

I feel like my situation is probably very typical of a significant cohort of Affinity users. Porting the products to Linux would be good for consumers and good for Affinity. The Linux train is boarding at the station! 

Depending on how recent a computer is and how much RAM there is, it is possible to, for example, run Affinity Photo on Windows 10 in a virtual machine on a Linux computer using software such as VirtualBox or VMware.

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2 hours ago, Chills said:

How many people are running PC's that are over 15 years old? not many ?  

As for a "significant" number of people moving to Linux...  Well Linux cycles between 2% and 5% of the desktop market.  At the moment it is about 4%, IT has been there before, several times. A "significant" number of people will have moved to Linux when it more than doubles its market share to double figures and 90% of those are on the same distro.

Was your intent with this answer to be helpful? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say no. My laptop, sporting a dual-core i7 5600U processor w/ 16 GB of RAM, does everything I need it to do, *except* run Windows 11; but that's okay in my book because I didn't ask for Windows 11, and I don't even particularly like Windows -- that is, don't feel comfortable with it. And I get the distinct impression that MS, like Adobe, isn't really all that bothered with catering to or retaining individual consumers like me, except to the extent that our data is in the aggregate worth some $$$ to them. 

I'm pretty sure running the Affinity product suite doesn't require being party to a measuring contest of reproductive organs, sporting a ridiculous 16-core CPU w/ 128 GB of RAM, or sucking at the heel of Redmond. Like most folks, I just want to do the tasks the Affinity Suite is made for, and the machine I have now is fine for that purpose.

Like it or not, more and more consumers like me are switching (back to) one variety or another of Linux. It is my hope that the Affinity team can see the wisdom in keeping them aboard.

Posted
53 minutes ago, Snapseed said:

Depending on how recent a computer is and how much RAM there is, it is possible to, for example, run Affinity Photo on Windows 10 in a virtual machine on a Linux computer using software such as VirtualBox or VMware.

Thanks. I've thought about running Win 10 sandboxed in a virtual machine, and that's probably what I'll end up doing. It'll be a hassle initially, but I'm sure I can get through it.

Posted
13 hours ago, Calv said:

I stayed with Windows for years only because of Affinity Photo. I shot film as a professional for about a decade until I switched to digital circa 2003. Then I shot digital until a few years ago when I retired and opened an unrelated business. Having laid the camera aside, I switched to Linux and was quite happy with it, but once the photography bug bit again I looked around and found Affinity still hadn't been ported to Linux! So what did I do? Switched back to Windows, of course! 

Now here we are in 2025, MS is once again telling everyone to buy a new PC, and this time a significant number of people are making the switch to Linux. I will almost certainly be among their number, and it just kills me that it will probably mean giving up Affinity. (Incidentally, this is also why I have held off buying the full suite of products.) 

I feel like my situation is probably very typical of a significant cohort of Affinity users. Porting the products to Linux would be good for consumers and good for Affinity. The Linux train is boarding at the station! 


If you enjoy getting your hands dirty once onboard:

 


Somewhat amusingly, depending upon the program, some run better on wine to Linux, than they do on windows; I've no idea if that is the case for the Affinity suite though.

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Posted
16 hours ago, Calv said:

Was your intent with this answer to be helpful? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say no. My laptop, sporting a dual-core i7 5600U processor w/ 16 GB of RAM, does everything I need it to do, *except* run Windows 11; but that's okay in my book because I didn't ask for Windows 11, and I don't even particularly like Windows -- that is, don't feel comfortable with it. And I get the distinct impression that MS, like Adobe, isn't really all that bothered with catering to or retaining individual consumers like me, except to the extent that our data is in the aggregate worth some $$$ to them. 

I'm pretty sure running the Affinity product suite doesn't require being party to a measuring contest of reproductive organs, sporting a ridiculous 16-core CPU w/ 128 GB of RAM, or sucking at the heel of Redmond. Like most folks, I just want to do the tasks the Affinity Suite is made for, and the machine I have now is fine for that purpose.

Like it or not, more and more consumers like me are switching (back to) one variety or another of Linux. It is my hope that the Affinity team can see the wisdom in keeping them aboard.

I gave a factual technical answer.   The answer was helpful in that it gave the reasons and timescales for the TPM hardware that the commercial/corporate IT departments wanted. Hence, the ISO/ IEC standard in 2009.   In my experience, having worked on both  ISO and ICE standards, the IEC standards tend to be industry lead and faster than ISO standards. This is why motherboards started to get TPM support over 15 years ago, it was not just Microsoft doing it.

Now most people don't change PC's every 2 years but most get changed after a decade because the software they use evolves. (it's far worse on Apple for having to upgrade hardware) So by the time Win11 came out all new PC's for the previous ten years would have had TPM And be Win11 compliant.    

So yes, my post was intended to be helpful to explain the timescales on the TPM and that it was industry lead. MS put it in because it was wanted by the majority of users (the cooperates) 

Your reply was emotive and lots of guessing and incorrect assumptions.

BTW my PC was spec'ed for video editing using BMD Resolve Studio. (there is a Linux version of Resolve)  It was also bough by my company to last for a decade (or more) hence the 128GB.  The minimum RAM for Resolve Studio is 32GB with 64GB recommended. So it made financial sense on the original build to go to the 128GB  which was the max for the motherboard.  The additional cost was negligible.   The NVIDIA 3080TI was "reasonable " but nowhere near the top spec for a video edit PC. the same with the CPU.   

So whilst my PC is overkill for Affinity and below par for serious gaming, it is the sweet spot for video editing with Resolve. Well, it was when it was built 3 years ago. now, it would have the next gen GPU and CPU's.  This is purely technical and economics because I am an Engineer and think like that.   

EDIT:- Just been told that my 1080 res screens will need upgrading for the latest version of Resolve V20, as it needs 1440 Res screens as a minimum.  Also Resolve is designed to worth with three screens.   So despite your obvious complexes it has nothing to do with "measuring contest of reproductive organs,"  but the requirements of the software my PC was spec'ed for.   The actual spec was worked out with a custom PC builder that does PC's for video editing, gamers etc  and the cameras have by  far the more powerful PCs

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Posted
15 hours ago, Calv said:

Thanks. I've thought about running Win 10 sandboxed in a virtual machine, and that's probably what I'll end up doing. It'll be a hassle initially, but I'm sure I can get through it.

As we can see from someone else who has used the VM method, it does work:

I can get by with native Linux applications such as Nomacs and Pixeluvo for my needs.

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i'm very happy (and also disappointed) to see that this is still a hot topic.

i'm still plodding along my linux beginner journey. i managed to get the suite working using a guide found on github on my previous distro, but have recently switched to another that i'm a lot happier with, and thus have had to restart the process of trying to get the suite working. i'm sad there's still no native port of the software. it's really one of the only things keeping me tethered to windows, and like plenty others have said, there is really no professional design software that works with linux yet. i would love to see affinity fill that need.

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On 7/7/2025 at 9:45 PM, BLVCKFEINT said:

i'm very happy (and also disappointed) to see that this is still a hot topic.

i'm still plodding along my linux beginner journey. i managed to get the suite working using a guide found on github on my previous distro, but have recently switched to another that i'm a lot happier with, and thus have had to restart the process of trying to get the suite working. i'm sad there's still no native port of the software. it's really one of the only things keeping me tethered to windows, and like plenty others have said, there is really no professional design software that works with linux yet. i would love to see affinity fill that need.

The take home from this experience ought to be that each distro represents a different operating system. It is more realistic to wish that, a linux based operating system will be successful enough, such that all the software builders will release version of their software for 'The Linux Desktop'. Whereas  wishing that any software creator write a version of their software for every single operating system that chooses to use linux as its kernel, well... this is quite the ask. Would you expect it to run in automotive systems and the likes, that also use linux? On servers too?

I mentioned earlier on that GTK the GUI toolset that was used to make GNOME, was initially written to crate GIMP, the acronym means Gimp Tool Kit. So you see the scale of the dream that you have. Linux is really a superb platform upon which you can learn what an operating system is, and this is exactly why this thread persists.

[Cue Hotel California] ... set for endless repeat.

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On 7/7/2025 at 9:45 PM, BLVCKFEINT said:

i'm very happy (and also disappointed) to see that this is still a hot topic.

i'm still plodding along my linux beginner journey. i managed to get the suite working using a guide found on github on my previous distro, but have recently switched to another that i'm a lot happier with, and thus have had to restart the process of trying to get the suite working. i'm sad there's still no native port of the software. it's really one of the only things keeping me tethered to windows, and like plenty others have said, there is really no professional design software that works with linux yet. i would love to see affinity fill that need.

Which guide did you follow and how has the performance been?

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