FOSS is all about choice, isn't it?

Who need licensing for Adobe products?

My thoughts as well. At least we can be cynical together.

They would be spending money on losing money at this point. There is literally zero benefit for them at n doing that and this point.

The floodgates are now officially open.

'Allow them'? 🤣

With these companies you either take it by yourself or do without. They don't 'allow' shit.

Same, but Krita

Me too, up top! Recent releases made some really good improvements on ui and editing, too. Good times.

Darwin I hope Canva keeps it clean.

And I speak as someone that did just start subscribing to Canva AI from inside Affinity this month.

DaVinci Resolve or Kdenlive.

I've used random Linux based video editors in the past, like 15-17 years ago. They were... Not great.

Later, I did a handful of projects with premier pro CS6, really liked it.

It's been almost a decade since I've done any video editing, until literally a few hours ago when I needed to make a simple wedding video for my friend. Cut together a couple camera angles, some PiP, do some color correction, a couple fades and one linear swipe transition.

I'm running Bluefin, so I went the path of least resistance, and just checked the flatpack catalog for the highest rated and most downloaded video editor.

That was kdenlive. I found it to be fairly user friendly, and powerful enough for my needs. The GUI reminds me of CS6, though it's been awhile since I used it, so that may be less true than I'm remembering.

Hardware acceleration for encoding didn't work on my AMD 7840U, but... I didn't try very hard. Maybe there's a workaround, and it may not even be the programs fault.

Take my recommendation with a grain of salt, because again, this isn't my world, and I did zero research haha. Kind of funny that this post is the first one I stumble across after finishing that project.

Here's a video about kdenlive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dIqJDy78TI

No, it means I can install Photoshop and InDesign for the couple times a year I need to edit a file in my line of work, and I no longer need to boot into Windows twice a year just to use them.

This is amazing news!

Still no autocad on Linux. Freecad works, but importing dwg files from autocad, which almost everyone uses, is always messy.

People have very good reasons for not switching to Linux. Not everyone is a computer/software enthusiast. Most people dont want to deal with the different for the heck of it, especially when the current solution works well enough (which windows does no matter how much we like to shit on it for fair reasons.)

I only discovered Krita in the last couple of years and have been using it almost entirely instead of Gimp. Also not a professional, mostly use it for ttrpg stuff like maps and character or vehicle tokens, but it has been a lot smoother for me. I have never used photoshop, so I can't compare to that though.

yeah I only recommend krita now, GIMP works but it is not easy to learn

More like great news for all of those people trapped on windows due to needing that software for work who can now make the switch

Just to put it out there: There are some excellent options for a linux-native photography stack which also work on windows and mac if you're interested in trying those out before switching. Darktable and Rawtherapee are both excellent raw developers and Digikam for library management and light editing. You should find that you can pass files between each for a seamless workflow. If you did switch to Linux you would also get Geeqie which is blazing fast for inspecting, culling and rating raw files and is also interoperable with the above apps.

A really good resource for FOSS and Linux photography is pixls.us