Affinity products for Linux

[Renzatic]

19 minutes ago, D’T4ils said:

The X.Org Nouveau ones were causing the issue.

Well, yeah. No one uses the Nouveau drivers unless they're either hardcore FOSS fans, or are really desperate.

[jaizon]

A question to you all: Since we now can consistently have Photo working, what would be needed in order to solve the problems we currently have, the flickering and performance?

As far as functioning goes, I was able to load in files, including macros, just by draging and droping. Haven't tested a bunch of evects yet but even this poster in the image has mani livefilters, so it should be somewhats heavy!

 

One thing I've noticed later one, I can import multiple files at once, I tested it with brushe files, but I can't reorganize pannels the sticky feature doesn't work, so once I get rid of a pannel I can't dock it anymore.

Edited July 17, 2022 by jaizon
Another problem found

[Kajac]

Very cool to see the guys running affinity on bottles.

I did what the guys recommended to get around the dotnet 3.5 error, but I can't run it at all.

Apart from that the last update didn't go down very well, the bottles used to be very fast and now it's slow!

[1stn00b]

Sorry to hear you can't test it, but i think there are other problems that need to be fixed on your system since it works for other people here.

[Kajac]

6 hours ago, 1stn00b said:

Sorry to hear you can't test it, but i think there are other problems that need to be fixed on your system since it works for other people here.

I really do not understand. On the bottles github I found someone else with the same problem!

Now I'll wait for them to help, because they said it doesn't work, but I posted this forum, showing that it works!

Did you manage to unzip the .exe or did you do something different?
I've tried everything, using unzipped, trying to run the version already installed on windows and nothing works.

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Another thing I noticed is that the bottles are slow in this latest update! Detail that I have good SSD, CPU and RAM!

[Kamei Kojirou]

Make sure to report your findings on WineHQ for the flickering etc. There are no reports showing it is out of garbage mode currently. So please provide your results there to do your part of helping. This way you can get the community and wine developers to start assisting with these issues. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18332

As far as Bottles goes, from what I understand and this might be out of date information. But there is/was an issue on the Ubuntu family tree of distros that wasn't resolved when I attempted it.

[geenat]

Oh maaaaaan GOOD WORK! It's such a relief to not have to boot up a freakin windows install just to use affinity

Affinity Designer is working in Ubuntu 22.04 ...with nvidia GPU rendering !

Wanted to report in @1stn00b's guide here does work https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/47502-affinity-products-for-linux/page/92/#comment-940833 Thank you!!!

Although I am experiencing flickering issues as well, but hopefully we can find a workaround soon. 👀

 

 

[Kamei Kojirou]

4 hours ago, geenat said:

Oh maaaaaan GOOD WORK! It's such a relief to not have to boot up a freakin windows install just to use affinity

Affinity Designer is working in Ubuntu 22.04 ...with nvidia GPU rendering !

Wanted to report in @1stn00b's guide here does work https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/47502-affinity-products-for-linux/page/92/#comment-940833 Thank you!!!

Although I am experiencing flickering issues as well, but hopefully we can find a workaround soon. 👀

 

 

Cool, looks like bottles and this configuration is working on Pop!_OS 22.04 too. Once the flickering is sorted we'll be in good shape. I went ahead and turned in a report on WineHQ for Affinity Photo. I'm encouraging others to do the same.

[Frozen Death Knight]

How is the current drawing speed and performance on Linux for raster brushes? That to me is going to be a massive deal breaker once I try this myself. 

[1stn00b]

Just tested Affinity installer in latest Bottles update and doesn't trow that NET 3.5 not found error. The rest is the same so still flickering and other problems we had.

So now its possible to just create a new Application bottle bulk install allfonts, dotnet40, dotnet48 from Dependencies with Caffe as runner and the installer works. Although using a Custom config is more simple since it's setting up everything 😆

[Renzatic]

19 hours ago, Frozen Death Knight said:

How is the current drawing speed and performance on Linux for raster brushes? That to me is going to be a massive deal breaker once I try this myself. 

I made a 3000x3000 image, and upsized an oil brush to around 2000px. It looks like it's painting at about the same speed as it would in Windows, but the canvas goes so screwy that it's nigh unusable.

[Kajac]

Thanks @1stn00b for the tutorial on the previous page!

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Today I managed to identify my bottle problem!

Unfortunately my internet has some problem or limitation that prevents me from communicating with the bottles server!

I found this there on github(link) when trying to " ping repo.usebottles.com -c 5 " and having 100% packet loss.

Probably that's why nothing worked right, because I couldn't download the dependencies right!

I got around the problem using a VPN and done.

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It's not perfect, but it has a blinking bug, I have to find a way to install the fonts I use and how to save the edited files.

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Now it's not long before I delete the partition with windows here!

[chiddekel]

On 7/25/2022 at 1:34 AM, Kamei Kojirou said:

Cool, looks like bottles and this configuration is working on Pop!_OS 22.04 too. Once the flickering is sorted we'll be in good shape. I went ahead and turned in a report on WineHQ for Affinity Photo. I'm encouraging others to do the same.

I notice that flickering of picture is on any re-draw of canvas so it's performance of ( sothing like xyredrawcnvas() ) function that support redraw/refresh of canvas - i guess it's time too look for any .net related topic on WineHQ.

[geenat]

Added report to WineHQ for Affinity Designer: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=41006

[Mori Ogaj]

I can't get it to run. Although I did everything according to the manual

and nothing . Bottles generally ignore me. And it is because of the wine that it slows down the start.

Edited August 1, 2022 by Mori Ogaj

[1stn00b]

What's your Distro / System specs ? Are up to date ( flatpak update ) ? Did u reinstall Bottles after removing it completely ( flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.usebottles.bottles / flatpak install com.usebottles.bottles ) ?

I don't think this problem is related to Bottles but to something else on your system.

 

[Mori Ogaj]

Arch Linux and Fedora. In arch Bottles from AUR, and Fedora Bottles installed from flatpak

[Mori Ogaj]

I did everything again and it throws another error

backtrace.txt

[Mori Ogaj]

[Mori Ogaj]

[1stn00b]

Did u know you can use the edit button ?

From the pictures you posted seems you managed to install it, but its not rendering correctly. Is this in Wayland or X11 ?

[Mori Ogaj]

x11

[1stn00b]

Does Blender or 3D games work on your system ?

[Mori Ogaj]

I passed the witcher on this system

[Mori Ogaj]

I now open the program again and I get a message about an error of some file, and only close this window, everything is the same again