https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
I personally like Affinity Designer and have designed quite a few things with it. They are behind illustrator on features, I can't deny that, but I've been able to find answers to everything I needed.
Also they have solid developers working on the app. Check out this technical explanation of performance improvements to their rendering pipleline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfxzknVK_0
For a photoshop replacement, however, I would say Krita hands down. Again, its not as polished as photoshop, but I prefer it over Photoshop at this point even with all its rough edges. I really need to make a video or something about how to set it up and use it correctly but I think its got a lot more going for it.
I don't know if Atril is a good Acrobat Reader replacement either. Does it support PDF forms and annotation? That's what most PDF readers are missing.
Apple's preview is pretty great from that point of view. I've also used Xournal++ for that in the past.
I will say that if I really need the end result to be an SVG that I can modify in a text editor later, Inkscape is better for that.
Or more likely I just don't understand FreeCAD.
At least for amateur/hobby work, I've used the following for years and love them. I also try to regularly donate to them.
Instead of Illustrator for drawing, use Inkscape https://inkscape.org/ and/or Krita https://krita.org/en/.
Instead of Lightroom for developing digital photos, use Darktable https://www.darktable.org/
Instead of Photoshop for touchups, use GIMP https://www.gimp.org/.
Instead of Acrobat Reader, use MuPDF (mobile) or Atril https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mate-desktop/applications/atri... (Linux)