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Affinity for Linux? Canva's next big move could reshape the desktop software market
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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2025
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A major reason these kinds of things are happening is the EU move toward digital sovereignty.
Since there isn't exactly a non-US commercial OS available and Linux is good enough for most everything, we're starting to see a lot of interest in the open source world and moving towards open and standards-based software.
Commercial companies recognize that the EU governments represent a huge potential source of income. Some categories of software have essentially no Linux support... this leaves a huge vacuum to be filled by a company who can create professional image editing/CAD software which also works on Linux.
If Affinity is the only large, commercially supported professional publishing software available then they become the defacto winner of all of these new EU Digital Sovereignty contracts.