It's been f*** Adobe for years now but their products have a stronghold on the market and nothing can compare

I did join Mastodon for awhile but the instance I was in wasn't very relatable

For my laptop I run Pop!_OS, I would use Libre Office but Google docs does the job most the time now unfortunately.

keepass xc
calibre
vlc

off the top of my head but ye standard stuff nothing crazy

Latex
VLC
Calibre

Paint

Joplin for notes

I like Affinity not open source tho

Honestly if Adobe didn't move to subscription model I wouldn't despise them as much

i would like to try blender soon

also not open source but pixelmator pro is a pretty solid photoshop alternative for macOS. cheap too.

what are some other after effects alternatives

Affinity photo is f***ing great i highly recommend.

Gimp for life no cap

Blender is so hard for me to understand, then again i was like 12 when I tried it so

also bruh torrents lol. Even though I got f***ed over with a russian copy of photoshop and there's no option to change the language lmao. I've never bought a daw/program ever. I do have a legal version of FL studio tho because my boy gave me his account

I love Affinity Design

buncha L's itt

yeah the subscription s*** is bs

I think it's a good option for some users but the fact they have no none subscription products now and charge a huge cancellation fee

they get worse all the time

I avoid their stuff whenever I can

heres a site that lists a ton of alternatives

ethical.net/resources

The last goat series

hitfilm works similarly

rawtherapee

I don’t do artistic work but isn’t Blender like a big thing?

We used Blender in my Game Programming class like 3 yrs ago when I was still in college. Didn’t know people actually was using Adobe for anything still.

Gimp was a big thing even before I went to college for the open sources free community as well as a ps alternative.

I believe it was to stop piracy

bro if you can avoid Adobe CC you’re brave asl.

there’s just so much amount of info available for it to use anything else

lmfao, that backfired then