https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer
🚩 Performance: The program run 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;
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As with the recent Adobe/Photoshop news, I understand why this has been done and the sort of user that it’s for, but FOSS graphics and photography software on Linux is so good now that I don’t think this will have the impact it might have had a few years ago.
His continuing hatred for Linux Mint (disguised as “old distro, old libraries”) to not support it, kind of bothers me. Mint users are the ones who would need this shortcut more than a seasoned user.
Also, this appimage is not well done, it’s hardcoded to libfuse2.so, and so even Debian-Testing doesn’t work (that only has libfuse3).
no actually the library thing is always a factor it’s exhausting to get in a pile of irrelevant packaging issues reported for some distro that doesn’t fulfill required dependencies . those issues need to go to the packager instead. or they just have to accept using 3 year old applications
Mint is less than 2 years old, that’s NOT old enough to say “I won’t support it”. If Microsoft was doing the same with Windows, they would never succeed. Compatibility is a big, big thing, and as I said, it’s users who use Mint that require his Appimage, not an Arch seasoned user. He misses the point. Just let him bundle more dependencies. It’s already 1.25 GB the package, what if it was 1.3 GB? Not a big difference.
Wine Is Not an Emulator
Is this a recursive acronym?
Yes.
There’s also GNU’s Not Unix .The best kind of acronym
No comment on the software because I have no use case for it, just wanted to note that GearLever can “install”, and integrate your appimages into your menu quick and easy, and in most cases keep them updated too.
+1 for GearLever.
Have you used AppImageLauncher? Gear Lever sounds like it, only much better.
Years ago. I thought it had been abandoned but I see it started getting updates again last year.
Okay, but writing a .desktop file takes like 10 seconds.
I was putting it out there as a suggestion for inexperienced Linux users to manage their appimages. Writing a desktop file won’t update your appimages or handily install them in a consistent location.
I believe if we imagine a Venn diagram, users of this software would have some overlap with users who’d prefer or require a gui tool.
I understand where you are coming from. But I am a standard transmission kinda person.
This and the recent Wine patches to support Photoshop’s installer might open the door to Linux becoming viable for graphic designers.
Really good news on that front this week.
Does this work offline? Or does it have to be connected to Canva’s servers?
It basically works offline.
You need a canva account associated with it, and there is a periodic online check in if I recall correctly. But it’s not an online always scenario in the slightest.
Though I have never used their AI tools/features at all, which might require online because it uses their servers (just speculation)
I am in two minds about affinity and tempted to move but i would prefer it on Linux. I use inkscape a lot and that runs nice. But i do need a decent replacement for InDesign.
