But there are a lot of other software, that people have a hard time letting go of. Like Affinity, Scrivener, certain games, a lot of small programs/apps, like FastStone apps (Image viewer and more), AllMyNotes, ActionOutline, Duplicate cleaner 5, EZ CD Audio Converter and more…
It may be me being a millenial, but I’m used to Photoshop being widely pirated. It used to be Adobe’s strategy to let people do that because that meant more people who knew how to use it and therefore more business sales.
I used a pirated version of PS too - many years ago. I worked with multimedia, so there was a reason. Most regular people don’t even know how to use PS… They are better of with just a simple tool to do what they need, like cropping adjusting size, levels, colors and and the most basic things.
No offense but with the number of random processes running on any given machine, I am in no way gonna trust a mission critical app to work right from a pirate site and not load something extra like a keylogger. Hell it barely works right in a fully legal install…
Also, I used to strongly advocate switching off Creative Cloud to Affinity to own the software but I have this horrible feeling that they may be going either subscription or AI slop or both on the 30th and you can no longer buy version 2.
(And I say that as a long-time Adobe stockholder from back before they went pure evil with Creative Cloud.)
I always recommend Loreforge as a replacement for Scrivener. I had no problem swapping once I spent a little time in Loreforge. It’s even available on Windows so they can try it ahead of time.
My guess is, that you haven’t heard of a lot of apps or games, that a lot of people enjoy using… But it’s really of little consequence to the debate here, what you have heard of. :-)
Linux has been a superior OS for a while, especially since Steam’s efforts to port games over to it.
Only reason many people hang on, including some in my household, is platform exclusive tools like Adobe.
AutoCAD
It’s the reason I feel stuck too.
Freecad?
Not at all comparable.
source: I use it.
Well, Adobe is not “household” software. :-)
But there are a lot of other software, that people have a hard time letting go of. Like Affinity, Scrivener, certain games, a lot of small programs/apps, like FastStone apps (Image viewer and more), AllMyNotes, ActionOutline, Duplicate cleaner 5, EZ CD Audio Converter and more…
it is when everyone pirates it
Which everyone doesn’t do. By your definition, every software is household. Come on, please relate to this with common sense.
It may be me being a millenial, but I’m used to Photoshop being widely pirated. It used to be Adobe’s strategy to let people do that because that meant more people who knew how to use it and therefore more business sales.
I used a pirated version of PS too - many years ago. I worked with multimedia, so there was a reason. Most regular people don’t even know how to use PS… They are better of with just a simple tool to do what they need, like cropping adjusting size, levels, colors and and the most basic things.
No offense but with the number of random processes running on any given machine, I am in no way gonna trust a mission critical app to work right from a pirate site and not load something extra like a keylogger. Hell it barely works right in a fully legal install…
Also, I used to strongly advocate switching off Creative Cloud to Affinity to own the software but I have this horrible feeling that they may be going either subscription or AI slop or both on the 30th and you can no longer buy version 2.
(And I say that as a long-time Adobe stockholder from back before they went pure evil with Creative Cloud.)
No need to convince me, I quit using Adobe before they even introduced Creative Cloud.
I’m just explaining what I see.
I always recommend Loreforge as a replacement for Scrivener. I had no problem swapping once I spent a little time in Loreforge. It’s even available on Windows so they can try it ahead of time.
It’s a good alternative, but it’s subscription based, and that’s a no go. Thanks for telling me about it though.
LOL. Never heard of any of them.
My guess is, that you haven’t heard of a lot of apps or games, that a lot of people enjoy using… But it’s really of little consequence to the debate here, what you have heard of. :-)
Kind of what I was thinking too.
Once I retire and no longer need Windows for work I am switching full time to Linux.