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.

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    9 hours 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).

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      6 hours ago

      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

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        5 hours ago

        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.