Affinity on Linux

[!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.

• Create a folder to group content on the directory .
• Download ".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 folders and files under `$HOME/WINE`:

╭─YOUR-USERNAME@SYS in ~/WINE
╰─λ tree
.
├── apps
│   ├── affinity-designer-msi-2.5.3.exe
│   ├── affinity-photo-msi-2.5.3.exe
│   └── affinity-publisher-msi-2.5.3.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 (recommended)

• For Arch, Debian, Fedora or OpenSUSE download and execute the script affinity-wine-rum.sh running sh ./scripts/affinity-wine-rum.sh.

2. Use WINE with Bottles (not working)

• Option A. Do it manually, via scripts CLI.

  • Compile manually ElementalWarior WINE:

  git clone https://gitlab.winehq.org/ElementalWarrior/wine.git "$HOME/WINE/ElementalWarrior-wine"
  cd $HOME/WINE/ElementalWarrior-wine
  git switch affinity-photo3-wine9.13-part3
  mkdir -p winewow64-build/ wine-install/
  cd winewow64-build
  ../configure --prefix="$HOME/WINE/ElementalWarrior-wine/wine-install" --enable-archs=i386,x86_64
  make --jobs 4
  make install

  • Install Bottles from FlatHub as flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles.
  • Add the compiled Wine build as a runner in Bottles to this directory.

  mkdir -p "$HOME/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/runners/affinity-photo3-wine9.13-part3"
  cp -r "$HOME/WINE/ElementalWarrior-wine/wine-install" "$HOME/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/runners/affinity-photo3-wine9.13-part3/"

  • Open "Bottles" and create a bottle using the affinity-photo3-wine9.13-part3 runner.
  • Install winetricks with your package manager and add "dotnet48" running WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.var/app/com.usebottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/[bottle-name]" winetricks dotnet48.
  • Install allfonts dependency from Bottles.
  • Set the "Windows Version" back to win10.

• Option B. 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 shortcut apps:
  • 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