JemmyEasy install of Affinity Studio on Linux with an AppImage
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https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer
đ© 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 2,1Â 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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This is truly great; first, the Adobe installers finally working and now, Affinity suite running on Linux!
ikiddI 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 Iâm hearing of Affinity. What makes it great? :)
Itâs not worse (perhaps better, at least UI wise) than Photoshop. Itâs 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.
HanrahanItâs 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 thereâs 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.
yessikg
No comment on the software because I have no use case for it, just wanted to note that GearLever can âinstallâ, 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 wonât 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 whoâd prefer or require a gui tool.
I understand where you are coming from. But I am a standard transmission kinda person.
Wine Is Not an Emulator
Is this a recursive acronym?
Yes.
Thereâs also GNUâs Not Unix .
The best kind of acronym
This and the recent Wine patches to support Photoshopâs installer might open the door to Linux becoming viable for graphic designers.
Really good news on that front this week.
His continuing hatred for Linux Mint (disguised as âold 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, itâs hardcoded to libfuse2.so, and so even Debian-Testing doesnât work (that only has libfuse3).
It also has this âMattâ guyâs recents hard-coded into the appimage lmao
no actually the library thing is always a factor itâs exhausting to get in a pile of irrelevant packaging issues reported for some distro that doesnât 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, thatâs NOT old enough to say âI wonât support itâ. If Microsoft was doing the same with Windows, they would never succeed. Compatibility is a big, big thing, and as I said, itâs users who use Mint that require his Appimage, not an Arch seasoned user. He misses the point. Just let him bundle more dependencies. Itâs already 1.25 GB the package, what if it was 1.3 GB? Not a big difference.
Does this work offline? Or does it have to be connected to Canvaâs servers?
This seems to be prepared to work without an internet connection or a canvas account. At no point was I prompted to sign in and, in fact, signing out seems to break the program currently.
Nice, thanks
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 itâs 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)
Yeeeaah right now Iâm staying away from it. It seems to work fine ⊠on the surface. But use it for more than a few minutes, or use anything other than the most basic tools on a low-performance machine (I tried to apply a simple brightness correction to a layer) and IT WILL crash and burn.
As with the recent Adobe/Photoshop news, I understand why this has been done and the sort of user that itâs for, but FOSS graphics and photography software on Linux is so good now that I donât think this will have the impact it might have had a few years ago.
I tried it. The AppImage âworksâ, the installer is extremely buggy, I couldnât get Affinity to actually launch.
I tried an Ubuntu and a Fedora distrobox.
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.
Wow, love this. Have been a Darktable + GIMP user for the last 24 months. Definitely will try this
Man, I love gimp so much, but damn do I wish it had some fancier selection and fill tools. Iâve never actually used photoshop, so I donât know exactly what Iâm missing out on, but from the occasional video Iâve seen, it seems like a lot.
Jsus dumb this shit piece of software into sewer where it belongs, use gimp instead.
Until Gimp is as practical and simple as canva, I am not sure it will work out.
I am sorry but what