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lautan @lemmy.ca

2w ago

Bring Affinity Suite to Linux Sign the Petition

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Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux

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The Affinity Suite is great, but I’m suspicious of its acquisition by Canva—I’m afraid their solution to “bringing the suite to Linux” will be turning it into a web service.
- A subscription web service
  
  If we all spent that money on gimp, scribus and inkscape, they would be so much better in just 2 years.
- Oh no, when did they get bought by those ghouls?
  
  Just over a year ago.

Its moot because Affinity have already said they will not, not ever.
- https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/98932-faq-affinity-on-linux/
  They didn't say they never will. They don't have plans for it, but they won't rule it out.
  We won't rule out making a Linux version of Affinity in the future if the right Linux distro comes along with a reliable deployment platform that will allow us to recoup our development cost for the Linux version.
  I guess they could use Flatpaks here if they don't want to deal with packaging it for every distro.
  
  I've also seen Serif saying that they won't. It was someone else that linked it. I have tried to find the link again but could not and I'm too tired and sick to keep looking. The TL;DR was that they tend to be good at stringing people along but they've definitively said its not on their roadmap, won't be added and supporting Affinity on Linux would be too expensive/difficult.
  Canva has little financial reason to invest in Linux users either.
  Enshittification also adds to making it incredibly unlikely.
  People have been begging Adobe to port to Linux or at least make their products work with WINE for more than a decade now to no avail and Adobe, unlike Serif, has the budget to do so.
- But surely this petition with nearly 400 signatures will convince them there's a business case for supporting Linux!

what is it?
- Adobe alternative
- It's a professional-grade graphic design software.

I've always been surprised affinity isn't on linux I would think people looking for alternatives to adobe would also be looking for alternatives to windows so it makes sense to put them together.
- There is a wine branch that can run Affinity just search for it
  
  Question, are you running it? I got really hopeful about it but feedback I read said it wasn't very good. It worked, technically, but was buggy making it less than ideal. I forget all the details but it was enough to make me not want to even try it.

I tried multiple times but i ended up loading it in a vbox 🤷‍♂️ since the Canva acquisition I started getting used with gimp, krita and inkscape. I have zero hopes for this.
- That's what I do. There's few programs I still need windows for so I just spin up a VM for them.
  How's the gimp/krita/inkscape transition going? I've used Gimp and Inkscape, and they are fine tools, but I don't think they are Affinity level yet. Though admittedly it's been a few years since I last touched them.
  
  Yea I pretty much do the same, even tho I still need to figure it out the pass-through for the gpu. And also to be clean, as much as I would love to, gimp and inkscape are not ready for professional use I think. Krita is nice but not very useful to be. Instead kdenlive really shames premiere and AF, i was blown away.

If a program insists on Windows, it is instantly deemed incompatible with my operating parameters and fails my system requirements....

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