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Please support this! As graphic designers we should be able to use a open source OS.
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Why? Krita exists and it's FOSS. I would sooner throw them a donation than pay a subscription or fee for something else.
Affinity is a one-time fee at around 80€ for a Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator clone that sprang unto existence literally to combat Adobe subscriptions. Except since using Affinity exclusively for a year now, it feels better than Adobe ever did. Much more modern. Only missing a rare few of features that have work-arounds.
But, as OP says. Linux support is sorely missed. Because it's much smaller than adobe there is a lack of community effort to get it to run on linux and if you manage to make it run, it craps out on you.
Since I work professionally with digital art and print, Krita, GIMP, etc. are sadly nowhere closer viable options (I have tried). Unfortunately I had to give up and install Windows last week solely to run Affinity properly, all other software that I use for work runs smoothly in linux, and like 95% of my preferred games (I too refuse to pay a subscription on principle).
Krita is not the same software than these... You don't use Krita to design a book, you don't use Krita to manipulate RAW pictures...
Having Krita as basic image editing is doable. However, if you actually use them professionally, you'll realize that Krita is definitely not alternative to those.
Krita is a first-class painting software, and even its current development is more closer to be Clip Studio Paint alternative, like having comic layer, webtoon layout, etc. The dev regularly observate Clip Studio Paint development.
Affinity Photo is actually easier to use than any alternative, including Photoshop and even GIMP. Its base system also much more faster than Photoshop, GIMP, and even Krita.