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Is it pointless to buy the Affinity Suite and try get it running on Linux? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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For context, I want to teach myself Graphics Design as I had dropped out of college copule years ago for personal reason but still want to learn it.

I have heard from few people online that they have got Affinity running with Bottles or Wine. I really want to use less of Windows whereas possible but I'm unsure how well it performs on Linux and if there are a better alternative from Affinity and Adobe in general.

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[–] catharso@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

ok, yes, i suppose i should not have mentioned the scripts without attaching a warning.

i'm still grateful though that someone put in the effort to write 'em, because they finally solved a problem for me that i couldn't solve for years.

i guess now it's "the communities" turn to properly document and dissect those scripts for the larger user base.

i'm certainly not angry with whoever wrote those scripts because he didn't put in even more effort for free.

but i do get your point (i think) and agree.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago

Oh yeah, not putting any blame on you, just agreeing with the person above.

On a related note, it's not even good practice to copy/paste commands directly from the browser to a terminal at all, because it's possible for unicode/js tricks to completely override what you think you're yanking to your clipboard. So copy/pasting a curl-to-bash is a double whammy of bad practices.

I much prefer the practice of stating plainly, "here's a script, consider it an example, make sure you read it first, and run it at your own risk".