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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

KDE's Krita
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 or later
- Flathub

GIMP
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 or later
- Flathub

[Audio]

For audio migration I'd recommend switching from Soundbooth to

Tenacity
- Licensed under: GPLv-2.0 or later
- Flathub

LMMS
- Licensed under: GPLv-2.0 or later
- Flathub
  - Status: "Unverified"

[PDF]

Acrobat Reader to

MuPDF
- Licensed under: AGPLv-3.0 or later
- F-Droid

KDE's Okular
- Licensed under: GPLv-2.0 or later
- Flathub

[Video]

Premiere to

Shotcut
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 or later
- Flathub

Kdenlive
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 or later
- Flathub

OpenShot
- Licensed under: GPLv-3.0 only
- Flathub
  - Status: "Unverified"

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[–] [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.