https://github.com/ryzendew/Linux-Affinity-Installer
🚩 Performance: The program is still emulated with wine inside the appImage package. The performance are quite good, but not flawless, heavy instruments may still cause lag or crash. No need to preinstall wine, all the components are in the package.
AppImage 2,1 GB
AffinityOnLinux provides an easy way to install and run Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher, and the unified Affinity v3 application on Linux. The installer automatically sets up Wine (a compatibility layer for running Windows applications) with all necessary configurations, dependencies, and optimizations.
Use the AppImage:
1 - Download the AppImage from GitHub Releases
2 -Make it executable: chmod +x Affinity-3-x86_64.AppImage
(or simply right click the app> property > permission > flag as executable)
3- Run it: ./Affinity-3-x86_64.AppImage (or right click > open)
The page has also a complete installation tutorial using Wine with hardware acceleration. But it support only some distros. The AppImage is an all-in simpler way to test out this app without installing further tools.
to create a shortcut for an AppImage you can follow this guide:
https://linuxvox.com/blog/how-to-install-app-image-linux-mint/
Create a new .desktop file in the ~/.local/share/applications directory. For example, create a file named example.desktop with the following content:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Example Application
Exec=/path/to/example.appimage
Icon=/path/to/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
