Affinity on Linux

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[!NOTE] This is possible thanks to:

• Affinity Wine Docs (by wanesty)
• Wine patch for Affinity apps (by ElementalWarrior)
• WINE (compatibilit layer)

Requeriments

Note

WINE requires Xorg (Window System Display Server), if you use Wayland you need the XWayland bridge.

Now requirements are installed automaticallys via script. These are the necessary things:

Create a directory "~/WINE" to group the content

Download inside "~/WINE" the **".exe"** apps from here Designer, Photo, Publisher and copy under the directory "$HOME/WINE/apps".

Copy WinMetadata directory from Windows 10/11 "C:\windows\system32\WinMetadata" to the directory "$HOME/WINE". You should have these directory tree.

╭─YOUR-USERNAME@SYS in ~/WINE
╰─λ tree
.
├── apps
│   ├── affinity-designer-msi-2.6.5.exe
│   ├── affinity-photo-msi-2.6.5.exe
│   └── affinity-publisher-msi-2.6.5.exe
└── WinMetadata
    ├── Windows.AI.winmd
    ├── Windows.ApplicationModel.winmd
    ├── Windows.Data.winmd
    ├── Windows.Devices.winmd
    ├── Windows.Foundation.winmd
    ├── Windows.Gaming.winmd
    ├── Windows.Globalization.winmd
    ├── Windows.Graphics.winmd
    ├── Windows.Management.Setup.winmd
    ├── Windows.Management.winmd
    ├── Windows.Media.winmd
    ├── Windows.Networking.winmd
    ├── Windows.Perception.winmd
    ├── Windows.Security.winmd
    ├── Windows.Services.winmd
    ├── Windows.Storage.winmd
    ├── Windows.System.winmd
    ├── Windows.UI.winmd
    ├── Windows.UI.Xaml.winmd
    └── Windows.Web.winmd

Installation

Warning

Review the bash script and execute at your own risk

1. WINE with rum, a small wineprefix script (recommended), compatible with Arch, Debian, Fedora and OpenSUSE.

   • Download and execute the script affinity-wine-rum.sh running sh ./scripts/affinity-wine-rum.sh.

2. WINE with Bottles (not working)

   • Download and execute the script affinity-wine-bottles.sh running sh ./scripts/affinity-wine-bottles.sh

Extra: create desktop shortcut

The desktop shortcut only works for rum

• Create desktop shortcuts to launch the apps from your desktop environment and modify the icon and app path to your case. Here are the three Affinity shortcuts:
  • designer.desktop
  • photo.desktop
  • publisher.desktop

More

• Affinity Photo - WineHQ AppDB
• Affinity Suite V2 on Linux [Wine] - Affinity Forum
• Affinity running on Linux with Bottles - Affinity Forum
• Why use rum instead of Bottles? - Wanesty
• Affinity on Linux (guides) by Seaper on GitHub
• Affinity on Linux (scripts) by Mattscreative