Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
by judge2020 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @08:26PM
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Adobe CC apps used to be so easy to pirate, but recently Adobe has been going hard on anti-piracy detections (I imagine it is indeed getting abused by some businesses somewhere). I was under the assumption that a majority of their mindshare was from high school kids learning on cracked adobe then asking for licensed creative cloud apps at work.
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Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
by katbyte on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:09AM
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I’ve also noticed the rise in Adobe alternatives over the last few years so must be working
Re:Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
by vagrantJin on Monday March 29, 2021 @05:59AM
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This times 100. The open source alternatives are ridiculously good. Figma and Blender are the ones I use and we've made some extensions for specific jobs painlessly.
The free stack is even catching up where paid software used to excel - modern, usable UI. We're happy to drop a few hundred on donations.