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Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This means it runs with WINE? Or something similar?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

So no Linux then, unless running a virtualized Windows.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

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