2026-11-03 12:45 UTC
Replies (20)
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@voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 2026-11-03 12:48
Good news. I think they might struggle a bit with the ArtCraft stuff in development.
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@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2026-11-03 13:11
2027 is the year of the Linux Desktop!
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@furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-11-03 13:18
cool. still won’t use it though, i prefer foss applications whenever possible.
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@trojanbark@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 13:21
What is affinity
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@Nokkelost@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 13:58
Oh damn! I’m game for that!
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-11-03 14:44
That’s actually really awesome news. I’ve been using Linux since 2008, and I’ve never seen companies so pressured to have Linux support. Companies that have never given a shit are now seeing missing dollar signs. That’s big.
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@ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2026-11-03 15:03
Awesome, the problem with wine is that it’s laggy and I prefer native.
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@Dadifer@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 15:15
Oh thank you, finally
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@gerryflap@feddit.nl 2026-11-03 15:34
Hmmmm interesting. If they bring it to Linux I might have a look, people seem to be happy with their tools.
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@MrSulu@lemmy.ml 2026-11-03 15:37
This is genuinely good news for me. I’ve been using Darktable for the last couple of years. This could add a valuable work and production flow.
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@thejml@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-03 15:58
As someone who does photography as a hobby/side hustle I’ll say, though it’s not FOSS, it was a SOLID Adobe Creative Suite replacement. You could actually just buy once and own forever instead of all the other subscription based creative software out there. Then Canva bought them, said “It’s free!*” and its gone downhill ever since. Luckily I can still use what I bought, because not subscription, but definitely not what it used to be.
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@lenocolomo@lemmy.ml 2026-11-03 16:11
Where the (might I say) “taint” of slop goes, the slop follows.
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@BinaryMonkey01@lemmy.world 2026-11-03 17:26
If this is true then this is great. I’ve been using designer as a vector tool for all the art in a game I’m making, partly because it’s free and I can export over to Spine for animation. Would mean I don’t have to keep switching between my desktop and MacBook when I’m trying to draw assets.
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@kayohtie@pawb.social 2026-11-03 17:38
I’m excited because I’ve found vector tools for Linux to be really lackluster so far, and end up reaching for Affinity via Wine, and that clunk, for vector work. Inkscape I know is a darling thing but like, actually using it? It’s an SVG editor at core, and that’s fundamentally different from “vector editing”, because “vector” is a concept, and “SVG” is a rigidly-defined format. In other words, if it’d be a valid vector operation but not supported by SVG, you (often) can’t do it in Inkscape. It also bounds objects with a manipulator that doesn’t follow the object shape/position, but instead the SVG bounding box for that object. So if you have a long box shape and rotate it diagonally, your bounding box is defined by the most distant X/Y coordinates that would fully surround it in a horizontal/vertical box, instead of being the object itself like all other vector editors do. And that shows something I can’t simply fix with a feature request because it’s part of the fundamental design of Inkscape – that’s way bigger than a feature request.
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@Hadriscus@jlai.lu 2026-11-03 18:10
Too little too late. I advocated for a Linux version for years, and now with Krita, Graphite, etc. the need is no more.
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@KeenFlame@feddit.nu 2026-11-03 19:11
An ai addled mind wrote that. They actually think people use emojis like that
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-11-03 19:44
Is it happening? Year of the Linux desktop?
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@roguecnidarian@meemu.org 2026-11-03 20:34
@mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml They're just going to have Claude write the "port" for them aren't they?
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@ZoDoneRightNow@kbin.earth 2026-11-03 23:31
It took them so long I no longer care tbh. I got used to inkscape and scribus. Scribus would be the two of those I would stop using first if I do switch back
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@OscarRobin@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 03:53
Canva, new owner of Affinity, just laid off nearly 1/4 of their employees.