plus all the other news sites that could promote it then. It also gives people like myself the opportunity to promote it such as on my podcasts and on. This method will allow us to consolidate effort to promote it and gives us a chance to actually prove it. I think any other method of trying to find out will take years and will be heavily skewed. If it isn't successful, no one loses any money and they get an answer to the question "is there enough people in the platform to justify the upfront cost of our software?".
If the campaign is successful they get the money to make the software support Linux without worry about if there is enough people to justify it. In fact, they can make larger tiers than regular price to see how many people are ultra-interested. Serif finds out how many Linux users are willing to make this happen. It also is a method of seeing not only how many people want it but also how many people are willing to pay because we would have to put our money up in the campaign. This allows us to have a single thing to promote and allows us to consolidate the effort of people knowing where to go to show their support. Serif creates the campaign and sets the price for the campagin to whatever they think it will cost to do the development and we as a community promote the campaign to gather support. (at the very least, agree they will support the software under WINE) Create crowd-funding campaign to gauge interest.
I am a big fan of WINE but a company waiting on WINE developers to decide to work on making software work and then convince users to buy a license for an unsupported WINE version is just not reasonable. Here's the problem, they can't find out if the Linux ecosystem can sustain their model unless they gives us the chance to prove it can. I feel like in the next few years Linux might become a more viable alternative to Windows for general users. Huge advances have been made in gaming, and general usability of Linux. It's very encouraging seeing how Linux has started taking off in the past few years. It also one of the only remaining programs that keeps me using Windows, otherwise I would switch to Linux in a heartbeat. The Affinity software is really one of the only viable alternatives to the Adobe Suite, and there are many people who would appreciate having support on Linux. It's really unfortunate that it came to this, instead of Serif taking the initiative to develop a native version or start the ball rolling with Wine. If you would like to dedicate them all to Affinity Photo, select all three checkboxes. If you would like to see Affinity possibly supported on Linux please vote for it over on the WineHQ website. So far we have made it to 18th place on the Top 25 list, over the past two weeks.
We are trying to upvote Affinity Photo on the WineHQ website, to grab the attention of the Wine developers. Serif, the creators of Affinity, have repeatedly stated they have no interest in creating a native Linux version, but would possibly offer assistance in getting their software running in Wine, here.
Once Photo is working it is likely Designer and Publisher will also work, since they all share the same base. We are trying to drum up support for the Affinity Photo software to be compatible with Wine.
To sum everything up, all three Affinity Products (Photo, Designer, and Publisher) all run on a similar code base.
If you are interested, you can read the full forum thread here.
There has recently been an uptick in interest for the Affinity Software Suite to be able to run on Linux.