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Re:Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund by ziddoap on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:12PM (#23989838)
Although I agree, one key difference from this case and your analogy between Vim and Notepad++ is you don't save a few hundred/thousand dollars switching from Vim to Notepad++.

That's an extra factor that, at least for me, made it worth switching and investing some hours into adjusting for hotkeys/shortcuts/etc. To be fair to your point though, I don't have a decade of full-time work invested into Photoshop so perhaps my muscle memory was more malleable.

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Re:Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund by chme on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:34PM (#23990092)
Not only the money is the issue, also your livelihood if you live in a country where the US can decide from one day to the next to sanction it for what ever reason, and cutting your access to any cloud service.
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