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Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

IntelliJ is great for organizational settings. I would never use it for home use as there are many good free alternatives for that kind of setting.

Most Adobe tools don’t have any good free alternatives even for home use.

So jetbrains is “acceptable” because I don’t need to open my own wallet.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Most Adobe tools don’t have any good free alternatives even for home use.

inkscape is on a level with illustrator (maybe even better)

for drawing: try krita

if you want to pay money (much much less than for adobe): Affinity is on a level with fotoshop

[–] Technofrood@feddit.uk 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately Affinity just got brought out by Canva https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/canva-statement/

Of course they are claiming oh no we won't be going subscription only, but if history is to be believed, give it a year or two and see that stance change.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

Sheesh, FOSS licenses really are the only force in the universe that can stop this nonsense.

I remember shelling out for Substance indie licenses thinking it would be a good investment. Shortly after they're:

  • part of the "adobe family" (yaaay! /s)
  • Not gonna make it subscription only, c'mon guys. It's ok.
  • No seriously, we hear you, you'll have options! Definitely!
  • Newsletter: Ok we're subscription only, "Get your keys for the super out of date version because we're just deleting it from human history now."
  • SaaS cloud only and you're gonna like it, peasant.

Never trusting private software like that ever again.

[–] prof@infosec.pub 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Another upside of Jetbrains over Adobe is that you can get edu-licenses that allow you to use every software of theirs.

The best deal our university could get from Adobe was 25% off on Photoshop if at least 200 students bought it.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They also offer their software for free for open source projects.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, they are super pro FOSS. TBH no one makes a better IDE than them for professional settings. I wish Adobe did things the way they do them.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I would never use anything else for Java or Kotlin. Through the free and open source JetBrains IDE of course.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I personally love Webstorm and Dataspell

[–] tables@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

Most Adobe tools don’t have any good free alternatives even for home use.

Yep. Lightroom is the one piece of software I tolerate paying a subscription for. Alternatives do exist, but they all suffer from the typical FOSS problem of never having had a designer look at them and help them build UI that's meant to be used by humans.

I've spent a bunch of time trying to learn Darktable, and at the end I still couldn't arrive to the same results I could in Lightroom by watching a 5 minutes tutorial and adjusting a few sliders. Not to mention that searching for a few of the issues I had led me to a bunch of threads of people complaining about the exact same issues only to be met by a developer telling them "if you don't like the UI use another tool".