Before I even knew to hate Adobe, they were my favorite company to pirate from in college. Them and ChaosGroup

I am admittedly not a super-user, I basically only use vector and raster editing maybe once every 6 months, but for what it's worth I've managed to survive using affinity for most of my needs. I work in the AEC industry so we have a different PDF editor (thankfully)

I think affinity avoids getting under Adobe's skin by omitting certain popular features (for example, Designer still does not have image trace, which was probably 50% of what i used illustrator for), but otherwise they're serviceable

I pray that a decent alternative to their suite becomes Linux-compatible (even if it's just a buggy WINE prefix) because whilst Adobe sucks ass, I'm struggling with Inkscape and GIMP (though I'm pretty decent at both nowadays)

Acrobat is the most unusable piece of shit I've ever had the displeasure of trying to read simple text PDFs on. Glad I remembered Sumatra exists goddamn

i use pirated 5-6 years old versions of PS and AI (illustrator, not the machine learning buzzword) that don't have any AI (the machine learning buzzword) features and all the DRM functions have been neutered. i bought a download link on taobao for like 10 kuai, worth it.

i use them because the alternatives (gimp/inkscape) are pretty shit imo, but for drawing and colouring i use krita which is actually pretty good

i don't know anyone who likes adobe

Adobe managed to suppress the entire field of creative software by buying out every potential future competitor and killing off their product, for decades, until everybody forgot that's a kind of software you can make.

I've been hating Adobe since I was a child, before it was cool.

..Nah, who am I kidding, Adobe has pretty much always been hateworthy. They really pioneered some of the most awful modern day payment and DRM models.

I would probably buy PS, but I will not subscribe to it. Gimp does what I need on the rare occasions I need to do something.

Acrobat is just dumb. I don't see any benefit to it over free/cheaper alternatives.

Due to union rules i am actually not allowed to hate Adobe more than I currently do sorry.

When I was in college and we got student license edition I always preferred to use on principal alone...and it somehow performed better than the licensed edition.

I will literally never use Adobe software. My wife pirated some but I do not bother using it.

Any day now Adobe will probably cram some (more?) "AI" shit into their racket too.

It's crazy to me that Adobe has managed to to make any money. Their software products at their core are pretty solid, however all of their products are covered in barbed wire and throned vines. The idea that basic features require a subscription is beyond bonkers to me. I don't know how they managed to survive the 90s at all.

I hate Adobe, all my homies hate Adobe, and it's deeply frustrating there has been a meaningful alterative yet.

Despite the huge market share PS is so much worse & less convenient than my usual digital art program, Clip Studio. What do you mean you can't non-destructively mirror a canvas in PS?!?

As someone trying to become more creative. By God do I hate Adobe. They’re greedy pigs and proud of it.

I also hate it for what it represents, they’re industry standard so if you want to follow your dreams and become a creative. Guess what? You have one of many paywalls in your way to stop you. There is nothing porky wants more than for all arts to be luxury hobbies for only the rich.

At least Photoshop CS6 is easy as shit to pirate

Say what you will about Apple, I gave them a couple hundred bucks almost fourteen years ago and I can just use their video editing suite as much as I want and they give me every updates on the reg.

I think it's because they aren't quite as ubiquitous. Most the people heavily involved with Adobe products do so for creative work, and that's a relatively small niche comparatively.

I had to switch to a different PDF reader because for the life of me I couldn't get the dumb little AI assistant to quit covering the corner.

e: i changed my mind i love adobeeeeee

AE is unparalled. Everything else they make has more extensible open source alternatives.