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Thanks to the following commenters below for additional recommendations that I added to this post!

  • bruhduh
  • Toes

Free Open Source Alternatives

[Visual/Graphical]

For all visual/graphical artists I would personally recommend switching from Photoshop over to


[Audio]

For audio migration I'd recommend switching from Soundbooth to


[PDF]

Acrobat Reader to


[Video]

Premiere to


There's also an excellent thread started by urska@lemmy.ca

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[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 3 points 6 months ago

They've actually been acquired a few months ago, they promised no changes to their business model but I'm not hopeful

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They will boil that frog slowly. Soon there will be an alternative subscription with a discount for previous license holders. Then they hide the option to buy a perpetual license so only people who spent time to search for it can find it; and finally they will remove the option completely and claim that they did that because "Nobody was buying it".

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