Affinity for Linux

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, wonderings said:

It has been mentioned many times and seems like something they are not interested in doing. 

It's stronger than "seems like"

They have stated they are not interested in crowdfunding.

[aronkvh]

6 minutes ago, wonderings said:

Because they are not developing for Linux

oh I meant LondonSquirrel(?) who has been obsessing over how bad and useless Linux and it's community is.

I understand that it's a bussiness decision

[Renzatic]

18 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:

how it is tricky to build for Linux on the desktop due to lack of any sort of standardisation, and how quite a few people in the Linux 'community' refuse to accept that.

And you've been told many a times that it's not nearly as tricky as you're making it out to be.

[Renzatic]

1 hour ago, LondonSquirrel said:

You cannot make any assumptions when building for Linux in comparison to Windows or Mac.

Yeah, you can. When you get right down to the bare basics, the only real differences between all these various distros is when they update their libraries. Appimages, flatpaks, and snaps solve this problem by including all the libraries with it, making this a non-issue.

...as has been stated many a time before in this very thread.

But what about desktop environments? Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc. etc. etc.? Doesn't matter. They're all cross compatible with each other. Worst case scenario is that you get an app that doesn't fit in with the style of the rest of your desktop. But hell, Windows users have been facing this problem for years and years now, and it hasn't been a dealbreaker. It's the same on Linux.

But what about package managers, distro specific installers, and all that good stuff? Yeah, back in the day, it was something of a pain when you had an .rpm file, but you were on a Debian based distro, and you had to use something like Alien to convert the installers. It's hardly an issue anymore though. Why? Because you have appimages, flatpaks, and snaps now. Package managers these days are more about how your distro updates itself, and where you get your FOSS software.

It's just not as big of a deal as you think it is anymore. If the Affinity suite were to come to Linux, all Serif would have to do is target a distro to serve as a base to support, and they're done.

[Patrick Connor]

Thread Locked till I decide quite how much to delete and who to ban. It may just stay locked

[Patrick Connor]

This thread has led to dozens of uses of the "report" button, mainly against 2 or 3 recent participants. The reports are mainly upheld and the posts are not in keeping with the rules of these forums. I am now following a number of the participants in this thread to make sure the arguments in this conversation are FINISHED and do not re-start elsewhere. There is no point, and it makes this place unpleasant. Anyone arguing about Affinity on Linux will be banned from posting, certainly for 1 week but potentially permanently.  

If you do not want to see any future posts from a forum user, on a desktop browser simply hover over their avatar image and a pop-up will appear, with an option "Ignore User". Alternatively go here. (This option is not available for ignoring moderators) I seriously recommend it's use if a user is posting things you do not want to see.

Having wasted too many hours today reading and re-reading the 5 pages of posts made in this thread over the 3 days before it was locked I have come to the conclusion that it would not be possible to delete only some posts and leave others as they are so intertwined and full of pull quotes that I am left with 2 choices

1. Delete all posts made since last Thursday and reopen the thread

2. Leave the thread as it is, argumentative and locked.

Option 1 is the fairest on the other participants in this thread and all to you guys I am sorry to have to do this. However, after 45 pages or posts most of the justification and ideas about how to get Affinity on Linux have been posted and discussed ad-infinitum, so the thread has probably run it's course. Furthermore if it was to be unlocked I have a feeling that the same conversations as have just happened would happen again.

Option 2 means that others will see the discussion that took place and how it (almost inevitably) took a(nother) downward spiral. Many of the points made were valid and I think deserve to be seen, but the lack of implementation (which is still true all these years later) has led to more and more speculation as to the whys and less and less about of users simply wanting to "+1" to show support. Serif understand there is a lot of support for this and the thread does not have to be open to appreciate that.

Neither is ideal but I am choosing option 2. This thread will not be unlocked.

[Patrick Connor]

If you are a new arrival to this thread and have found that it is locked but still want to show your support for Affinity on Linux, simply like this post