https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer

🚩 Performance: The program is still emulated with wine inside the appImage package. The performance are quite good, but not flawless, heavy instruments may still cause lag or crash. No need to preinstall wine, all the components are in the package.

AppImage 2,1 GB

AffinityOnLinux provides an easy way to install and run Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher, and the unified Affinity v3 application on Linux. The installer automatically sets up Wine (a compatibility layer for running Windows applications) with all necessary configurations, dependencies, and optimizations.

Use the AppImage:

1 - Download the AppImage from GitHub Releases

2 -Make it executable: chmod +x Affinity-3-x86_64.AppImage

(or simply right click the app> property > permission > flag as executable)

3- Run it: ./Affinity-3-x86_64.AppImage (or right click > open)

The page has also a complete installation tutorial using Wine with hardware acceleration. But it support only some distros. The AppImage is an all-in simpler way to test out this app without installing further tools.

to create a shortcut for an AppImage you can follow this guide:

https://linuxvox.com/blog/how-to-install-app-image-linux-mint/

Create a new .desktop file in the ~/.local/share/applications directory. For example, create a file named example.desktop with the following content:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Example Application
Exec=/path/to/example.appimage
Icon=/path/to/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;

Author @ekZepp@lemmy.world

    • Marthirial@lemmy.world
      1·
      12 hours ago

      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.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      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.

    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      19 hours ago

      It’s not worse (perhaps better, at least UI wise) than Photoshop. It’s cross platform too (meaning Windows and macOS, but as we see it, also Linux). And is recently became free, since Canva bought it.