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[Gamesfromscratch] Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up? (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by recursive_recursion to c/[email protected]
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Free Open Source Alternatives

[Visual/Graphical]

For all visual/graphical artists I would personally recommend switching from Photoshop over to

[Audio]

For audio migration I'd recommend switching from Soundbooth to

[PDF]

Acrobat Reader to

[Video]

Premiere to

There's also an excellent thread started by [email protected]

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[–] realbadat 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Just to mention a not-foss, but extremely well done DAW, cheap ($60 personal use, $225 commercial) and goes through 2 major versions before you'd need to pay again, free to download and try WinRAR style, supported on windows, macos, and Linux, etc, etc - reaper.

https://www.reaper.fm/

If you need a solid DAW, with support for all kinds of plugins and a dev team that's not a bag of dicks trying to screw you over with a cloud subscription and AI, this is it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Until it gets bought by some big corp and suddenly has spyware integrated and goes into subscription anyway Happened to a lot of good proprietary software, and this is a reason why open source is superior.

[–] realbadat 2 points 5 months ago

FOSS is always a better option, as of today I don't think anything compares. And since they aren't a big company doing shady things, the licensed version is permanent, no big company buyout is going to impact anything other than upgrades.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Reaper is great, but unfortunately I've never been able to get my VSTs properly working on linux, especially ones with a full GUI like a lot of drum vsts do. It's literally the only reason I still dual-boot windows on that machine.

[–] realbadat 1 points 5 months ago

I get that, there is a list of Linux friendly vsts out there that work well. I think they have a link to the list, but I don't really use drums in my workflow so couldn't give you any examples unfortunately. I did have to go into windows for some work stuff where I needed a specific vst though, definitely understand the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

WinRAR style

So we basically never have to pay?

[–] realbadat 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, just a nag. If you're recording/editing a few times a year, it won't be a bother. If you're in there often, it's worth the few bucks.