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Darn I got excited for no reason. I first read "ALL PLATFORMS" and thought that version 2 would also work on Linux. But alas!
by AtticHacker 4y ago
Darn I got excited for no reason. I first read "ALL PLATFORMS" and thought that version 2 would also work on Linux. But alas!
- pessimizer 4y agoIt looks like there are only two big bugs keeping it from running in Wine, etc., a flickering issue and the fact that they're using a deprecated Windows API call to save to disk. However, they also seem to show no interest in making it work. They'll still have to update that call eventually, though. They really should fix it. The fact that they're selling software and not subscriptions (unlike the competition) means that if they get one version running well on Wine, they could take as long as they wanted to get any later version running. Linux users will just be a year or two behind everyone else, but they'd be grateful.
- seanw444 4y agoSupposedly they're a relatively small team. According to another comment (I don't use it personally), they're missing a lot of features Adobe has had for decades, so they would probably understandably prioritize porting to Linux under even that.
- AtticHacker 4y agoI sympathize with them completely. The effort needed to port it to Linux most likely won't be worth the small user base (and the even smaller percentage of Linux users that'll use proprietary software)
- zxspectrum1982 4y agoSame here. I'll gladly pay for Affinity on Linux.