How to run Affinity (formerly Serif) by Canva in GNU/Linux

Please watch this excellent tutorial:

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:

The current version is:

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:

winget upgrade Microsoft.AppInstaller
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Some things are not as good in the free version:

"Canva is seriously considering porting Affinity to Linux..."

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