Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up?
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So Adobe "just" released a new terms of service for most of their creative products like Adobe Photoshop and Substance 3D and lets just say some of the new t...

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Thanks to the following commenters below for additional recommendations that I added to this post!

  • bruhduh
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Free Open Source Alternatives

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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

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Acrobat Reader to

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Premiere to

There’s also an excellent thread started by urska@lemmy.ca

  • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
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    25 days ago

    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.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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      25 days ago

      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@programming.devEnglish
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        25 days 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.

      • realbadat@programming.devEnglish
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        25 days 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 their often, it’s worth the few bucks.

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      25 days ago

      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.