Jsus dumb this shit piece of software into sewer where it belongs, use gimp instead.
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Until Gimp is as practical and simple as canva, I am not sure it will work out.
Wow, love this. Have been a Darktable + GIMP user for the last 24 months. Definitely will try this
Yeeeaah right now I'm staying away from it. It seems to work fine ... on the surface. But use it for more than a few minutes, or use anything other than the most basic tools on a low-performance machine (I tried to apply a simple brightness correction to a layer) and IT WILL crash and burn.
I tried it. The AppImage "works", the installer is extremely buggy, I couldn't get Affinity to actually launch.
I tried an Ubuntu and a Fedora distrobox.
As with the recent Adobe/Photoshop news, I understand why this has been done and the sort of user that it's for, but FOSS graphics and photography software on Linux is so good now that I don't think this will have the impact it might have had a few years ago.
His continuing hatred for Linux Mint (disguised as "old distro, old libraries") to not support it, kind of bothers me. Mint users are the ones who would need this shortcut more than a seasoned user.
Also, this appimage is not well done, it's hardcoded to libfuse2.so, and so even Debian-Testing doesn't work (that only has libfuse3).
It also has this "Matt" guy's recents hard-coded into the appimage lmao
no actually the library thing is always a factor it's exhausting to get in a pile of irrelevant packaging issues reported for some distro that doesn't fulfill required dependencies . those issues need to go to the packager instead. or they just have to accept using 3 year old applications
Mint is less than 2 years old, that's NOT old enough to say "I won't support it". If Microsoft was doing the same with Windows, they would never succeed. Compatibility is a big, big thing, and as I said, it's users who use Mint that require his Appimage, not an Arch seasoned user. He misses the point. Just let him bundle more dependencies. It's already 1.25 GB the package, what if it was 1.3 GB? Not a big difference.
Wine Is Not an Emulator
Is this a recursive acronym?
Yes.
There's also GNU's Not Unix .
The best kind of acronym
No comment on the software because I have no use case for it, just wanted to note that GearLever can βinstallβ, and integrate your appimages into your menu quick and easy, and in most cases keep them updated too.
+1 for GearLever.
Have you used AppImageLauncher? Gear Lever sounds like it, only much better.
Years ago. I thought it had been abandoned but I see it started getting updates again last year.
Okay, but writing a .desktop file takes like 10 seconds.
I was putting it out there as a suggestion for inexperienced Linux users to manage their appimages. Writing a desktop file wonβt update your appimages or handily install them in a consistent location.
I believe if we imagine a Venn diagram, users of this software would have some overlap with users whoβd prefer or require a gui tool.
I understand where you are coming from. But I am a standard transmission kinda person.
This and the recent Wine patches to support Photoshop's installer might open the door to Linux becoming viable for graphic designers.
Really good news on that front this week.
Does this work offline? Or does it have to be connected to Canva's servers?
This seems to be prepared to work without an internet connection or a canvas account. At no point was I prompted to sign in and, in fact, signing out seems to break the program currently.
It basically works offline.
You need a canva account associated with it, and there is a periodic online check in if I recall correctly. But it's not an online always scenario in the slightest.
Though I have never used their AI tools/features at all, which might require online because it uses their servers (just speculation)
I am in two minds about affinity and tempted to move but i would prefer it on Linux. I use inkscape a lot and that runs nice. But i do need a decent replacement for InDesign.
