Adobe warns it may face massive fines for subscription rules::Otherwise in rude health after posting best-ever results

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    2 years ago

    They bought Allegorithmic, put their Substance products behind a subscription, and discontinued Substance Painter’s Linux release because it was inconvenient to their subscription model. Adobe can vanish off the face of the fucking earth for all I care.

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      2 years ago

      Can we drop the Adobe executives into the ocean and make them pay for a subscription to a dinghy?

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        2 years ago

        You’re thinking too small!

        • We sell them a cheaply made dinghy for a one-time payment with a 400% markup (it’s okay, it has AI features)
        • The lifetime license expires in a few days
        • For continued support, we coerce them into a multi-tier subscription
        • Tier 1 gets them access to some tape to fix the inevitable holes
        • Tier 2 gets them a hand-operated pump
        • Tier 3 gets them one (1) oar and a very nice hand-written letter to thank them for their trust and support

        Then I roll up to them in my libre motorboat and chuck them in the ocean because fuck them.

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      2 years ago

      None of the photo editing tools are very good relative to photoshop. Affinity photo is somehow both almost there and woefully short at the same time.

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        2 years ago

        Krita feels very close to me but I can understand I’m barely a photoshop adept so there may be a lot of missing feature parity I don’t know about.

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      2 years ago

      Copying the image here, this seems like a decent and thorough list.

      The ones I recognize are Affinity stuff (got recommended by someone on lemmy a few months ago), Krita, Procreate, Blender, PDFx-change one

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        2 years ago

        I want to use affinity so bad, but they don’t make a Linux version. They actually seem kind of hostile to Linux.

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        2 years ago

        Wasn’t figma acquired by Adobe recently? Also, refering Hitfilm Pro for people looking for an alternative for After Effects is just a joke.

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          2 years ago

          Edited my comment to fix that

          What would be better for AE? I don’t do any video editing

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            2 years ago

            Unfortunately, I still haven’t found a good substitute for AE. And believe me: I find it absolutely horrendous software and would love not to have to use it anymore. Davinci Resolve can do some of the work, but the sheer amount of assets, plugins and the whole ecosystem for AE is kind of hard to replace.