I am in no way shape or form affiliated with them other than an extremely satisfied user.

I know Hacker News loves not having to rent their software, and I thought you might appreciate the fact that there are full fledged, cross platform replacements for Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. No subscription necessary, just a simple one time purchase per app. Even the iPadOS¹ apps (two of which are ready, the third is in the works) are not crippled, unlike many of their counterparts.

Unfortunately there are no plans of the apps coming to linux², but I have heard reports of people getting it to work using bottles³.

Oh, and re: another recent HN front-page post⁴, yes all apps have Pantone support⁵ ;-) (and from my experience importing AI and PS files works quite reliably)

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1. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/affinity-designer/id1274090551...

2. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/98932-faq-...

3. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/166159-aff...

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369951

5. https://twitter.com/affinitybyserif/status/15859336521015992...