Credits

📜 Credits

This project exists because of a lot of people's testing, reporting, and code. This page collects credit that used to be scattered across many separate files.

Maintainers and Core Contributors

• Twig: Project founder.
• Seapear: Co-maintainer (M on Discord).
• GameDirection: Co-maintainer (interfaceas on Discord).
• ElementalWarrior: Maintains the main recommended Wine fork, and created wine-wintypes.dll-for-affinity, the wintypes.dll shim this project's guides rely on.
• daegalus: Developer of the wine-tkg-affinity project.
• Wanesty: Early, sustained Wine-side research and discoveries for this project.
• Mattscreative: Extensive documentation work, and made the first Affinity-on-Linux video/guide on YouTube.
• Every contributor listed on GitHub, and the active community on Discord. If your pull request gets merged, you earn a GitHub Contributor badge.

Community Bug Reports

• XDan: reported the Canva sign-in crash, fixed by LoginFix.
• Søren: reported the vector pen preview line inaccuracy, fixed by AffinityPluginLoader's WineFix. See Related Projects: AffinityPluginLoader & WineFix.
• dansity and Clover: reported the color picker not working outside the canvas/artboard.
• Jacopo Faust: reported an SVG deselection bug in Designer V2 while snapping is enabled.
• darkside99: provided the recommended Heroic performance settings quoted in Tips and Tweaks.
• The reporter of the V3 high-zoom freeze on NVIDIA hybrid/Fedora Wayland setups (Issue #134): also traced the root cause to a float-precision limit in Wine's graphics code, specifically its d2d1 matrix transform.

Related Projects and Their Authors

• noahc3: created AffinityPluginLoader and WineFix, the plugin framework this wiki's LoginFix plugin builds on.
• ryzendew: created Linux-Affinity-Installer, a separate, unofficial AppImage/GUI installer for Affinity.
• Kron4ek: maintains the community Wine builds this wiki's Bottles guide uses.
• mrshmllow: maintains an unofficial Nix method for installing Affinity, not covered by this wiki but linked from the project's main README.

Organizations

• Canva & Serif: for publishing a non-native Linux-runnable version of Affinity at all.
• Microsoft: provider of the Windows.winmd metadata file this project's guides depend on.
• The WineHQ Team: added WinRT metadata support to Wine itself (merge request #8367).

License Notes

• This wiki and the AffinityOnLinux repository are licensed GPLv2.
• AffinityPluginLoader's core is MIT-licensed. Its bundled WineFix subproject is GPLv2. The patched d2d1.dll it ships is LGPLv2.1. See Related Projects: AffinityPluginLoader & WineFix for detail.