Vectorstyler on Linux?
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@VectorStyler said in Vectorstyler on Linux?:
What will the (Linux) user reaction be for a paid Linux app for example?
I was just made aware of this software package in a thread on a different forum, and am about to start my free trial.
If this can replace Affinity for me on Linux, I'd gladly pay for it because I really can't stand some UX decisions in Inkscape.
For me, it's all about reducing friction and I'm willing to pay for that.
However being new to Linux so for me, if it's not available as a flatpak, the software might as well not exist, so packaging and distribution might be a bigger hurdle than the porting itself.
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@eobet I will try to find a way to port it to Linux
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@VectorStyler This would be terrific, especially with the many concerns with Windows 11.
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I just purchased a license after being very impressed w/ the demo. I too would love a Linux port! Design software is the last thing keeping me chained to Windows. Also check out the DAW 'Bitwig' as another example of a successful commercial Linux port of professional software.
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@vegenaut said in Vectorstyler on Linux?:
I too would love a Linux port!
Thanks for the purchase, and I will get to this soon.
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@VectorStyler It would really be appreciated! I was very happy with VectorStyler when I was still using Windows, but due to Win10 losing support and Win11 being frankly a trainwreck, I finally made the decision to switch to Linux Mint. I'm not super familiar with Linux, but so far I haven't found any compatibility layers that allow VectorStyler to run, and even if I did I imagine a native build would perform better.
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@Kajico said in Vectorstyler on Linux?:
I'll throw my hat in that I too would love to see Linux support or at the very least see how to get VectorStyler running in wine. I daily drive MacOS but also have a decent gaming PC. I've decided to drop Windows all together and try running Linux on this PC. Just about every tool I normally use works natively in Linux or has good Wine functionality. Sadly VectorStyler won't launch in wine no matter what config options I change, UI won't load. I know it's not a priority but definitely think it might bring some value in looking at possibility of some Linux functionality. As far as Linux users paying for licensed software, I have licenses for Plasticity and Davinci Resolve which I run on Linux. I know a few others in the community that daily drive Linux and pay for commercial packages or subscriptions. Not everything is expected to be fully opensource to run on Linux.
If you have any success with this, let me know! I still haven't tested out Proton, but I think there's ways to use it with non-Steam software.
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There are many professional developers and specialists who are moving to Linux due to a lot of recent shitty changes from Microsoft, and the number will continue to increase, in my opinion. Also, from what I know, Linux basically only has Inkscape, anything else requires using Proton/Wine.
I bought VectorStyler recently. It would be great to see it on Linux, and please-don't bother with packaging. Those DEB/RPM packages will be compiled against specific distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora and won't work for others without patches. People will complain, you will begin to regret that you even did a port. Just ship a Flatpak on the official Flathub and optionally Snapcraft. Ditch X11 support, focus on modern Wayland. On 90% of modern Linux machines it will work flawlessly and you won't receive many support request since Flatpak (and optionally Snap) will be the only official distrubutions.
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@krasovsky said in Vectorstyler on Linux?:
focus on modern Wayland
Is MIR from Canonical still a thing?
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@VectorStyler nah, it's mostly dead. All modern desktop environments are focused on first-class Wayland support. GNOME already dropped X11 support completely, KDE will drop it by the end of the year. Many new popular tiling managers like Hyprland or Sway are Wayland-native from the start. Older ones like Cinnamon and XFCE are actively working on Wayland support, but they are not as popular as they were in the past. Modern Ubuntu by default ships just its own flavor of GNOME, if you missed that part.
Overall, a major part of Linux users still split mainly between GNOME and KDE. KDE recently has gained more popularity since SteamOS adopted it, and overall development has sped up.
Also, there is a big surge in so-called atomic or immutable distributions: those have a fixed system image that is immutable; you cannot install or uninstall system packages, remove your DE accidentally, or mess up the dependencies. The only things you can change are config files and your
/homedirectory. The main source of apps for those distros (e.g., Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite, Bazzite, SteamOS, etc.) is Flatpak and Docker/Podman containers. Basically it is similar to how modern smartphones function.So, again, with Flatpak you would cover both immutable and basic distros. By default, the Flatpak platform is not installed on Ubuntu, because Canonical has its own similar technology called Snap and its own store called Snap Store, but it can be easily installed using one command, though it usually makes sense to upload to both Snap Store and Flathub. If resources are limited, Flathub is preferred, since Snap support outside the Ubuntu ecosystem is questionable.
From a developer's perspective, the key difference between Flatpak and Snap is how applications are distributed. Flatpak allows anyone to host their own repository, while Flathub serves as the default public repository. Snap, on the other hand, relies on Canonical's Snap Store, and developers cannot host their own independent repositories.
