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Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The only blocker to me is it doesn't have native Linux support

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Important point, and they also said they didn't plan on supporting Linux.

They're changing things up after being bought up, but I'm not sure if Linux is a priority for them yet

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Had a lengthy mail exchange on that topix with them - before them being bought, though.

While they don't plan a native Linux version they absolutely were open to optimise towards better Wine usability - which I totally could live with for now.

But I have no idea how the buying by Canva influenced things - Canva does have a linux app so maybe there are more resources and a different focus now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This means it runs with WINE? Or something similar?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

WineDB says all their apps are "Garbage" status - eg does not run.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So no Linux then, unless running a virtualized Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I run it in a VM. Definitely not ideal, but affinity is so good, I compromise

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I tried it with bottles. It installed fine after manually installing dotnet 4.8, but I couldn't get Affinity Photo itself to run, even after extensive tweaks. All I get is an exception without any description in the terminal output.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are they actually .Net Framework apps or they just use it for some parts? If they are, they could transition to .Net which is cross platform. With some work, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The Affinity Suite started out as macOS-only apps which later got ported to Windows so I would be very surprised to hear they had any substantial portion written in .net

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I even wonder why they need it at all.