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[+] 14 points 1 year ago (21 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Well, Adobe is not "household" software. :-)

    But there are a lot of other software, that people have a hard time letting go of. Like Affinity, Scrivener, certain games, a lot of small programs/apps, like FastStone apps (Image viewer and more), AllMyNotes, ActionOutline, Duplicate cleaner 5, EZ CD Audio Converter and more...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I always recommend Loreforge as a replacement for Scrivener. I had no problem swapping once I spent a little time in Loreforge. It's even available on Windows so they can try it ahead of time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Loreforge

    It's a good alternative, but it's subscription based, and that's a no go. Thanks for telling me about it though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Huh? I've never paid anything for it.

    Edit: Ohhh, I see. They've added a subscription for some extra stuff. The full features of the program are entirely available in the free version. I've never pushed up against a paywall as far as I can tell.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Well, Adobe is not “household” software. :-)

    it is when everyone pirates it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Which everyone doesn't do. By your definition, every software is household. Come on, please relate to this with common sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    It may be me being a millenial, but I'm used to Photoshop being widely pirated. It used to be Adobe's strategy to let people do that because that meant more people who knew how to use it and therefore more business sales.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    No offense but with the number of random processes running on any given machine, I am in no way gonna trust a mission critical app to work right from a pirate site and not load something extra like a keylogger. Hell it barely works right in a fully legal install…

    Also, I used to strongly advocate switching off Creative Cloud to Affinity to own the software but I have this horrible feeling that they may be going either subscription or AI slop or both on the 30th and you can no longer buy version 2.

    (And I say that as a long-time Adobe stockholder from back before they went pure evil with Creative Cloud.)

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I used a pirated version of PS too - many years ago. I worked with multimedia, so there was a reason. Most regular people don't even know how to use PS... They are better of with just a simple tool to do what they need, like cropping adjusting size, levels, colors and and the most basic things.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, again, my opinion may be influenced by my age, once upon a time computer users were, on average, skilled enough to do simple stuff in PS.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)