Apple, Microsoft, Sony…it’s cool to hate them but can we please direct some fucking ire to this absolute pinnacle of piece of shittery that’s always on the frontier of the shittiest business practices in all things IT?
How has this compamy escaped a class action lawsuit by the entire population of the world?
Before I even knew to hate Adobe, they were my favorite company to pirate from in college. Them and ChaosGroup
I am admittedly not a super-user, I basically only use vector and raster editing maybe once every 6 months, but for what it’s worth I’ve managed to survive using affinity for most of my needs. I work in the AEC industry so we have a different PDF editor (thankfully)
I think affinity avoids getting under Adobe’s skin by omitting certain popular features (for example, Designer still does not have image trace, which was probably 50% of what i used illustrator for), but otherwise they’re serviceable
I pray that a decent alternative to their suite becomes Linux-compatible (even if it’s just a buggy WINE prefix) because whilst Adobe sucks ass, I’m struggling with Inkscape and GIMP (though I’m pretty decent at both nowadays)
for what it’s worth - I’ve heard some people have limited success running affinity software on linux
Haven’t tried it myself, and they’re upfront about some features being broken, but it might check enough boxes to work.
Acrobat is the most unusable piece of shit I’ve ever had the displeasure of trying to read simple text PDFs on. Glad I remembered Sumatra exists goddamn
i use pirated 5-6 years old versions of PS and AI (illustrator, not the machine learning buzzword) that don’t have any AI (the machine learning buzzword) features and all the DRM functions have been neutered. i bought a download link on taobao for like 10 kuai, worth it.
i use them because the alternatives (gimp/inkscape) are pretty shit imo, but for drawing and colouring i use krita which is actually pretty good
