Seems it’s now possible to run Affinity Photo with Wine + a bit of tweaking 
Having it as a snap would be amazing. Anyone up for it?
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/94180-running-affinity-on-linux-finally-works/
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For anyone stumbling over this:
there are also corresponding threads in the official Affinity forums (i.e. here, here, here, here, here, here or here).
As you can see, people are requesting this a lot.
And Wine compatibility seem to be given, since users are using it with manual Wine setups (i.e. here and here).
Keep in mind in case you’re looking for the INSTALL_URL for these apps, you can not take the URLs from homebrew definitions (affinity-photo.rb and affinity-designer.rb), since these are just for OSX.
The correct URLs are
Affinity Designer (source, 2): https://affinity.store/download/aea673/
Affinity Photo (source): https://store.serif.com/download/bd6d0e/
Affinity Publisher: https://store.serif.com/download/1b2ac3/
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If you check out the rest of the thread, it does not actually seem to be working reliably. The other thread where it is working is using WinApps, which uses a virtual machine, and it likely needs to be one with graphic acceleration. So no, unless you replicated the post about doing it on wine, there is not gonna be a snap anytime soon.
It sure would be. I wonder if Wine 6.1 helps any now that it’s out.
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I know this is ancient thread by internet standards, but has anyone taken up the torch? I saw on the serif forums that people have gotten Affinity Photo 2 working in Wine (granted a fork of wine with patches applied). Wonder if anyone’s tried to make it a snap yet.
Not that I have heard of. I’d be willing to donate to get such a snap going/maintained. Imagine if Serif/Canva had assigned a person to work on this. Would be a cost-effective way to expand to a new market.
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I’ll try to look into it. 
I have asked Affinity for official Linux build but problem is that they under the hood there is implemented some Windows patented API but problem is maybe also their new headings as company under Canva and now they have also ARM version under Snapdragon X(with Nuvia license lawsuite…) but no Linux and such wine is very unreliable and very specific and problematic in current Affinity versions…
so may they have some sale off but not Linux in this standings. and no plan yet but who knows in a year, two or five.
Before to hope to get a Snap, Affinity Photo should work with Wine, and it does not (as of Wine 7 or 8).
Not even with Crossover.
It runs with Bottles as per this report: