This is truly great; first, the Adobe installers finally working and now, Affinity suite running on Linux!
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I remember being able to install Affinity via wine quite a while ago, I think they made some changes that broke that. Good to see someone has gotten it working again.
This is the first I'm hearing of Affinity. What makes it great? :)
Itβs not worse (perhaps better, at least UI wise) than Photoshop. Itβs cross platform too (meaning Windows and macOS, but as we see it, also Linux). And is recently became free, since Canva bought it.
It is a software created by Serif, a UK company and it was called Affinity with three applications: Designer, Photo and Publisher. The three apps where very cohesive and their pricing model was one time payment for each major version.
I paid $50 for Affinity 2. Never went back to Adobe.
Then Canva bought them up and unified the three apps with some of their shitty design features and AI garbage, but made the new mash up free. Only a Canva account is needed, so far.
As a Windows and Mac native, running the software in Linux almost native is always a step in the right direction.
It's not great, it was a paid alternative to some adobe apps. I used it on Windows Canava owns it now and further enshitifcation will ensue.
I now use Inkscape, which is great.
Yeah thereβs literally only a few other programs that might prevent users from moving over now. I can only think of two suites, Office 365 and any sort of photogrammetry software.
Another easy boost should come when an alternative to kernel level anticheat for online games comes to Linux.
Microsoft is also pushing for a less invasive solution for windows driver level AC.
Alternatively, use Gear Lever for managing Appimages.
