Many creative hobbyists and professionals have grown tired of the Adobe Creative Suite, myself included. From the overly aggressive subscription fee, to Adobe's rampant push for AI integration which has led to well-justified privacy concerns, it has caused the general sentiment over Adobe’s Creative Suite to become increasingly negative.

And thus, it has led many people to switch to the Affinity suite with Photo, Designer and Publisher. Which provides all the essential features needed for professional graphic design, for a reasonable one-time price. 

For similar reasons, in recent years, many have grown frustrated with Microsoft Windows. Myself included. From random updates that Windows pushes even when you don't want them, to advertising pushed onto users that have already paid for Windows, to security concerns, and even to privacy concerns due to Microsoft's push for AI integration onto Windows with Copilot.

Currently, the Affinity suite is available on Windows, macOS and iPadOS. However, more and more creatives are unsatisfied with the platforms Affinity is available on. With Linux's user-base growing more and more overtime, we want to see the Affinity suite officially supported on Linux through its various distributions (or distros for short).

Even supporting just one popular distribution, such as Ubuntu, would allow you or the community to support it for the entire ecosystem, via projects like Linux Flatpak.

Additionally, it's worth noting that people are already using the Affinity suite on Linux via Wine, with limited success. It has issues that are virtually impossible to resolve without a native port however, and it isn’t a particularly elegant solution.

People are invested in your products, and the wants and values of the Linux userbase align strongly with Affinity's market.

The most recent public statement from Affinity regarding Linux support was from a staff member in an FAQ back in 2019.

But a lot has changed since then, and thus, this push for Linux has only grown exponentially…

For instance, the general userbase for Linux has more than doubled, from less than 2% in 2019, to nearly 4.5% of all computers worldwide now.

There is ever-growing evidence that the Linux community wants the Affinity suite ported to Linux, and are willing to pay for a Linux version of the Affinity suite if official support is made available. We want to show the Affinity team at Serif that this is in fact the case. And we hope that through this petition, we can make the Affinity suite on Linux possible.

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