I'm not going to cancel my Adobe subscription just yet, but I can certainly imagine LOTS of other independant creatives with less budget opting to do so. It's the first REAL threat to Adobe in a long time, and that is a good thing.

And, regardless of what you think of the actual software, Affinity being free and combating Adobe's scubscription model is a GOOD thing for creatives and creative industry. What will happen? I can't predict. I played with the new version of Affinity this weekend, and it's solid.

The unfortunate side effect is now Adobe is a near monopoly in creative software. The only real outlier being Figma (but that's a different story). They NEED competiton.

Adobe won that battle, not only through making a better product than the others but also through some bad decisions by competitors (Quark being extremely late to adapt Express to Mac OS X prompted mass migration to Adobe InDesign). Point being, through process only Adobe now remains.

the system. is down.
the system. is down.

THE SYSTEM. IS DOWN.

I'm leaning towards Windows 11. I actually really like Microsoft's clean UI, but it's cluttered up with bloat by default. Luckily you can get rid all of that with the Chris Titus Windows Utility for a very clean stock install youtu.be/0PA1wgdMeeI?...

I tried Linux (Zorin OS). I like the clean UI, but there are just too may apps that I NEED that aren't available. So that's a no-go. The options are now stick with Mac (and revert to Sequoia) or switch to Windows 11.

Is that Data & Geordi doing a Freaky Friday? 🤣

Are we going to have to go back to mastodon?

Any recommendation for a Pixel alternative? I want "pure" Material Design android. No third-party skins or bloat like Samsung.