They didn’t say they never will. They don’t have plans for it, but they won’t rule it out. (Unless the FAQ is outdated and they said they never will somewhere else)
We won’t rule out making a Linux version of Affinity in the future if the right Linux distro comes along with a reliable deployment platform that will allow us to recoup our development cost for the Linux version.
I guess they could use Flatpaks here if they don’t want to deal with packaging it for every distro.
I’ve also seen Serif saying that they won’t. It was someone else that linked it. I have tried to find the link again but could not and I’m too tired and sick to keep looking. The TL;DR was that they tend to be good at stringing people along but they’ve definitively said its not on their roadmap, won’t be added and supporting Affinity on Linux would be too expensive/difficult.
Canva has little financial reason to invest in Linux users either.
Enshittification also adds to making it incredibly unlikely.
People have been begging Adobe to port to Linux or at least make their products work with WINE for more than a decade now to no avail and Adobe, unlike Serif, has the budget to do so.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/98932-faq-affinity-on-linux/
They didn’t say they never will. They don’t have plans for it, but they won’t rule it out. (Unless the FAQ is outdated and they said they never will somewhere else)
I guess they could use Flatpaks here if they don’t want to deal with packaging it for every distro.
I’ve also seen Serif saying that they won’t. It was someone else that linked it. I have tried to find the link again but could not and I’m too tired and sick to keep looking. The TL;DR was that they tend to be good at stringing people along but they’ve definitively said its not on their roadmap, won’t be added and supporting Affinity on Linux would be too expensive/difficult.
Canva has little financial reason to invest in Linux users either.
Enshittification also adds to making it incredibly unlikely.
People have been begging Adobe to port to Linux or at least make their products work with WINE for more than a decade now to no avail and Adobe, unlike Serif, has the budget to do so.