Linux version when
Indeed. Although I suspect Wine or proton could be an option - not checked.
https://github.com/seapear/AffinityOnLinux is being updated to reflect the v3 but it does work
Affinity Studio now free
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Re: Affinity Studio now free
#282I used Affinity for several years, so to add some background here: Serif is the company that originally built this software. -------- 2014–2024 Serif developed the Affinity suite, a collection of three independent desktop apps sold with a one-time payment model: - Affinity Designer: vector graphic design (Adobe Illustrator equivalent) - Affinity Photo: digital image editing (Adobe Photoshop equivalent) - Affinity Pub…
I still use the Affinity desktop apps (before the move to the store) and they're fine.
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#283Love to see this the day Adobe emailed to say it’s hiking my Photoshop/Lightroom subscription by 50% ($10/mo -> $15/mo)
For sure. But "less shitty than Adobe" isn't a life goal.
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#284Devastated about this. Good for them for making money on the sale to Canva, but still, this is a sad day. Studio is now freemium, in the future probably more and more features (outside of AI) will be added in the subscription, and you will end up with an app full of disabled features and pop-ups encouraging you to subscribe and unlock the new and shiny thing. There is absolutely nothing in the world that anyone can s…
For personal use, piracy is always an option.
How does that work with SaaS?
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you (long-time Affinity user and fan, and Canva employee here :) Re. on-device AI features: these still have significant training costs; and Canva as a whole has paid hundreds of millions to date in royalties to creatives, including for AI training. Affinity is free, forever; but not open source; if that makes sense.
> Affinity is free, forever; but not open source; if that makes sense. It's free until you guys stop supporting it or go out of business, then it disappears.
your gripe is valid but misdirected. I also own a copy but, the one-time validation requires a validation server. Once that server goes offline, i can no longer install Affinity on a new machine.
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#286Seems much better than was feared, though I haven't yet downloaded and tried the new version and there's still plenty of room for things to decay in the future. It requiring an account (and thus, internet connectivity) to use is offputting, though. That is a prime enabler of enshittification, since it allows Canva to force updates that users may not necessarily desire. Hopefully it's easy to reverse engineer so old v…
I do hope you can still use it without internet. Otherwise the program is much less interesting.
You can use it without internet after the first signin!
Re: Affinity Studio now free
#287Thoughts on opensource alternatives?
- Inkscape is an obvious one --- there's also https://cenon.info/, perhaps Gravit Designer? Any word on Graphite.rs 's stand-alone desktop version?
- GIMP, Paint.net, Darktable and Krita
- Scribus or LaTeX or Typst
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#288Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it disappears - the copy I have will still be on my machine, and free to use as well. Unless they implemented something to remotely delete it?
Unless you freeze your machine in its current state, software that isn't maintained will eventually stop working.
This is how things have worked since programmable software was invented.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
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You don't need the new features, but they sure do help. The AI features in Photoshop easily cut my editing time in half. Doing denoise, color grading, object selections, object removals. Like magic.
I hate to say it but some of the newer PS features have become indispensable in my usage - mainly smart objects. nondestructive layer effects are a godsend when you want to tweak and retweak stuff that would otherwise require a ton of time and effort to undo/redo or duplicate layers/groups to A/B changes.
Re: Affinity Studio now free
#290Thoughts on opensource alternatives? - Inkscape is an obvious one --- there's also https://cenon.info/ , perhaps Gravit Designer? Any word on Graphite.rs 's stand-alone desktop version? - GIMP, Paint.net, Darktable and Krita - Scribus or LaTeX or Typst
> GIMP
still no cmyk, and AFAIK text editing is almost worse than useless. not everybody's use case, but it keeps me spending 12.99 a month for PS.