i launched one of the three Affinity Apps in Windows 10 and got a message I could get the latest for free. (A.I. package has to be paid for but all the essentials that you had in Designer, Photo, and Publisher are conjoined in one interface:
You can still open your original Affinity Products (I never went beyond the last version of 1) and you get the nag screen to download Affinity by Canva, but you can still use your original apps in Windows should you need to.
One thing with the standard Windows version (you need to download the Enterprise version which is an .exe file as .msix will not run in WINE) is you will need to install the latest MS installer App in CMD as Administrator:
Just thought I would share my failed experience. I tried to install Affinity on Zorin 17 Core last night and it failed miserably. Followed the terminal comnands for wine and winetricks and Zorin reported the newest versions were already installed. Installed Lutris (APT version). Installed the YAML script in preparation of installing the Affinity.exe. I got a wine debug report which stated installed version of wine was 9 but the 'host' was running 6.8 and that dotnet 3.5 was absent. So I installed it with its SP1 file too via Synaptic. No joy. The other thing to note is in the video Mono got installed. That never occurred with me on any attempted install so manually installed mono runtime. Still no joy.
I tried in WattOS-R13 which is a Debian fork. No winetricks in the repos and, as usual, just as in Zorin with other software, when I tried to add a third party PPA repo to get winetricks "Sorry, installing from third party repos is not permitted", which begs the question, is this down to SELinux which according to a FreeBSD post about OpenBSD having backdoors put in at request of FBI states it (SELinux) was written by the NSA!
I am curious to see if disabling SELinux will change things on WattOS-R13:
Forgot to add that the youtuber was using Debian with Plasma and the flatpak version of Lutris, so hopefully Canva will develop a .deb package.
