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I haven't installed or bought Affinity Photo yet, although both those things are on my todo list.
For those tossing up between the Mac App Store version and the download version, I got version 1 from the App Store and will not be choosing that way this time around. There is a well-known and infuriating problem with very long startup times on the App Store version. And it turns out macOS has a kernel bug/limitation where an App Store program can't do more than 10,000 file opens in one run, so I had a batch job die on me after 5,000 files.
The Windows install is now a .msix which is apparently causing some problems with DxO and some others refusing to run the installed app. Details and probable workaround at the Serif forums.
Some aspects of the macOS UI lack polish and some are saying it's gone backwards in an attempt to make ex-Adobe users feel at home. Kind of like spreading manure up your walls to invite the local slob around. I have no opinion on that yet as I haven't actually used it, but on the face of it changing the layers checkboxes to grey/less grey discs does seem to be a real step backwards to me, and I'm not thrilled with the reports of reduced contrast. At least there aren't those naff eye icons Adobe uses.
Still no support for right-to-left languages or vertical Japanese/Chinese text, even in Publisher. I don't have Publisher and probably won't upgrade Designer as I wasn't impressed by Designer version 1.
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