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Affinity announced their creative suite is in active development for Linux (no ETA) (lemmy.ml)
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https://x.com/Affinity/status/2117276850795790442

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[–] 48 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Tell me about Graphite. I'm a Krita user.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago

    https://graphite.art/

    It aims to be everything (from vector to raster to animation to publishing to compositing and so on), not sure how that ambition will turn out but they seem to have a very good team and are making good progress. It's node-based, but you can edit stuff using only the familiar layer stack if that's your thing. Check out the recent livestreams to see how the procedural workflow looks like : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLiaSGSnPs and their interview on Developer Voices : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUbcwUC5lxA

    There's no raster editing yet, and no painting, cf roadmap https://graphite.art/features/

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    I use affinity on windows to make photo books as a hobby. Scribus - the only Linux native FOSS alternative I’ve found - is stuck with the typical FOSS issues of a terrible UI, lack of modern snapping or photo importing features, and an overall lack of polish.

    Do you know of any affinity alternatives for the layout tools?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    No sorry I don't. Publishing is still one of those areas where open source tools are super lacking. Graphite aims to become a capable publishing tool though, and it's developing quite fast, so let's see what comes of it in a year or two. Right now it's a very capable procedural vector graphics editor. See the "nodevember" livestreams : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iLiaSGSnPs

    Sorry I can't help more.

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