Help support. Please make Affinity possible on Linux!

  • sramder@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I mean… you know they sold out to Aussie-Adobe like 4 years ago right?

    They are currently strip-mining the code so they can learn how to write an application that isn’t an instagram filter tacked onto MS paint… I just made that last part up, hopefully they do something good… but I assume they acquired Serif for the sake of IP protection and not because they were hoping to develop it further. I haven’t seen anything innovative happen for the last few years at least.

    • cygnus@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      At best they will repurpose certain features to add them to some “pro” (but still web-based) version of Canva at $50/mo. There’s no way in hell we’ll get Linux apps for Affinity. I really wish we would because they are literally the only reason I still have a Windows VM.

      • sramder@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        As long as you’re doing it in a VM might as well try the MacOS version. IIRC the OS screen scaling and apples requirements that everything have vector or MIB mapped icons makes for a much nicer experience.

        I don’t know if it works on a VM… just fondly remember using the apps on my MacBook 😅