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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057
I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.
Fuck Adobe, not supporting Linux, and now not even supporting Firefox, the once most used browser? Whoever pirates their crappy software deserves a statue.
Use pirated adobe #noshame
Normalize using pirated proprietary software for professional work😉
Yeap I remember the good ol’ days
I’d like my statue doing one of Luigi’s taunt poses, please
I wonder what their excuse will be once Linux surpasses MacOS in market share.
Any software company that uses monthly subscriptions as their business model can fuck right off. Let us own what we buy.
I just immediately pirate any company who does that
There isn’t anything that Adobe charges money for that you can’t find an open source alternative for.
Are we surprised that Adobe is doing this? Adobe is exactly who I would’ve suspected adapting this bullshit immediately.
This is the main issue with that web DRM “security” shit that Google is trying to push. They have such a great market share now that big websites can now afford to put a check “only for Chrome” losing a very small percentage of users
This very small percentage of users anyway would be privy to alternative to Adobe’s stack ?
Concern will perhaps be mainly for getting new users on FF/other browsers from Chromium.
I switched completely to Affinity Serif design suite and never looked back. One time purchase with free updates, much better.
You could switch to GIMP + InkScape, but I tried it as well and wasn’t enough for my usage. Huge learning curve and a lot of missing features.
I tried Gimp for a longer time, too, but I could not get used to the complicated layer management, missing layer effects & layer adjustment features. I will try out Affinity.
If you’re used to Adobe stuff should be easier to migrate to Affinity stuff. The fact they’re MUCH cheaper should also help
It took me a ridiculously long time to switch to GIMP and If I wasn’t all in for FOSS I wouldn’t have done it. I really can’t imagine any of the designers I know using it full time.
No version for Linux. Does it work under Wine?
Unfortunately not because it’s not a normal exe file but it’s installing as a side loaded “windows store uwp app” (I don’t know the exact term)
Sadly, no. I’ve checked and unfortunately people can’t get to work it.
You can still check it, some time has passed and people might have figured out some solution.
Huge learning curve and a lot of missing features.
I have found most of the “high learning curve” is based more on work flow. Muscle memory can screw with you when trying to learn a new piece of software. I used to use Dreamweaver back in the day when I was on winblows, made the switch to Linux started using bluefish and had to change my work flow which was hard to learn because I was indoctrinated in the way dreamweaver worked. Actually had to relearn some aspects of web design since I had gotten used to the convenience of dreamweavers macros that were pre-installed
It’s not an one-time purchase. I bought Affinity Photo for this purpose and then they released Affinity 2, and it wasn’t a free upgrade for Affinity 1 owners.
I’m not buying Affinity 2 and buying every new release just like Parallels do. I’d rather stick with the old version or take a shot on Gimp instead.
You can still use the old version no?
Yes you can. Paying for a major upgraded version is the alternative to an evergreen subscription, but allows you to milk more usage out of your purchase if you don’t need the latest and greatest.
Expecting a one time purchase to entitle you to updates forever is asinine.
Get a user agent switcher extension
- Rikudou_Sage ( @rikudou@lemmings.world ) English4•1 year ago
I haven’t checked, but I’d guess it’s because of some non-standard feature that only Chromium supports, not because of user-agent.
That’s the thing - i haven’t checked either. Guess what’s the next step? User agent switcher
Are you kidding - they basically invented the problem. They were one of the first to move to the “rent your software” model way back when
There isn’t anything that Adobe charges money for that you can’t find an open source alternative.
is there a list of that
Im REALLY trying to make myself learn Affinity Photo, but I just keep falling back to PhotoPea which is like an in browser Photoshop clone
Adobe, a company which developed nothing but just bought off 3rd party software by acquiring the actual developing company, and stitched everything together somehow, like a Frankenstein’s Creature, and finally sold it as a service.
Thank you, but no thank you.
Same applies for Autodesk.
I’ve refused to use Adobe for a while because of their bullshit. Their main product I care about is Lightroom, but Darktable is a perfectly fine replacement for it
I’m with you, but Darktable had soo many modules that overlap functions that I couldn’t get a good workflow going. Now, if we had a good foss copy of lightroom that behaved like lightroom, then I’d jump ship. But it is the bees bollocks so far in terms of usability.
They’re not part of the problem. They’re the problem.
I have been removing Adobe from my life starting way back with Flash, long before it was discontinued. Then Acrobat and the final thing to go was when I switched to Affinity Photo and Designer and ditched Photoshop. It works every bit as well for me but I never was a Photoshop power user. For a long time the only company that showed up when I searched online to see if my email had been pwned was of course Adobe and that was over a decade ago.
So, you can’t use adobe with a widely-used and -accepted browser, you must use one of the notoriously unscrupulous and anti-privacy tech giants’ browsers. Nothing worrying there! /s Also, more of “Bullshit As Usual” from adobe
Does a user agent change this
yes, you can find an addon for it in the marketplace
On Firefox perhaps a UA value can still be set in “general.useragent.override”.
Used to do it a couple of years ago, now I just prefer letting websites know that they are still receiving traffic from users running Firefox instead of Chrome.
I’d seriously consider if your task can be accomplished with any other software. Personally I find LibreOffice Draw to be a perfectly adequate Adobe Acrobat Pro replacement for most situations. I know everyone has a different workflow though.