I’ve heard people praise and was excited adobe has a competitor. I know I’m not the target group for such apps but it still makes me sad that they don’t support linux.
I know someone who really wants to switch fully to linux and stop dualbooting, but they can’t due to professional software in their fields not being supported on linux :( hope this changes or that our beloved FOSS apps gain similar momentum as Blender.
to be fair serif (affinity’s company) is tiny compared to Adobe. so they have had pretty limited resources and it makes sense they targeted Windows and Apple systems, which is where nearly 100% of designers are.
but they got bought by canva, so that could be good or bad. they put out a pledge to not enshittify affinity but a company’s word has no worth we’ll wait and see. but maybe there’s a remote chance they might look into Linux support in the future now that they have more money behind them.
still a very risky move for a business. it makes much more sense for FOSS apps to do that but design apps are a huge undertaking.
gimp just released a major update and I downloaded it, jesus christ it still is unusable for an actual designer, and looks fugly to boot. this is not up to hate on gimp but these projects just usually don’t have actual designers working on them so there’s only so much coders can do.
I think there’s a barrier to entry. we should think about an ecosystem where designers can contribute to such projects without the need to understand how software works. anytime someone mentions git my eyes glaze over.
Yeah I fully understand that a small team can’t support linux if most of the customers are on mac/windows.
I agree with everything you wrote - the same person I mentioned earlier is not a coder but would love to contribute in design (already does with language), but finds it very difficult.
The ecosystem could be similar to the translation tools for FOSS that are quite nice!
I’ve heard people praise and was excited adobe has a competitor. I know I’m not the target group for such apps but it still makes me sad that they don’t support linux.
I know someone who really wants to switch fully to linux and stop dualbooting, but they can’t due to professional software in their fields not being supported on linux :( hope this changes or that our beloved FOSS apps gain similar momentum as Blender.
to be fair serif (affinity’s company) is tiny compared to Adobe. so they have had pretty limited resources and it makes sense they targeted Windows and Apple systems, which is where nearly 100% of designers are.
but they got bought by canva, so that could be good or bad. they put out a pledge to not enshittify affinity but a company’s word has no worth we’ll wait and see. but maybe there’s a remote chance they might look into Linux support in the future now that they have more money behind them.
still a very risky move for a business. it makes much more sense for FOSS apps to do that but design apps are a huge undertaking.
gimp just released a major update and I downloaded it, jesus christ it still is unusable for an actual designer, and looks fugly to boot. this is not up to hate on gimp but these projects just usually don’t have actual designers working on them so there’s only so much coders can do.
I think there’s a barrier to entry. we should think about an ecosystem where designers can contribute to such projects without the need to understand how software works. anytime someone mentions git my eyes glaze over.
Yeah I fully understand that a small team can’t support linux if most of the customers are on mac/windows.
I agree with everything you wrote - the same person I mentioned earlier is not a coder but would love to contribute in design (already does with language), but finds it very difficult.
The ecosystem could be similar to the translation tools for FOSS that are quite nice!