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seriously. i haven't seen any paid software (software that either requires me to pay to use it or that has as its sole purpose to channel my money to the dumb shits that made me install it) that actually seems to work correctly in a long time. often trivial poo poo like registration flows are a frustrating, humiliating, broken experience. paid apps don't work. i tried to use a food delivery thing and after it cleared my checkout data twice in the same way after asking for additional information, i just waded across the street to a place that can give me food by speaking to a real human. you know, those things where if they break (in public at least) you can at least call someone. i tried to use a ride sharing thing, but their password field in the signup flow got blocked by their own stupid ui elements. argh! paid apps never improve. ever used spotify? that thing has a trillion bugs, some of which i barfed into their internal bug tracker almost a decade ago when and the only one that's been fixed since i left was fixed by removing the broken feature completely. they have like a thousand engineers now, what the hell is everyone doing? meanwhile in the free software world - everything kind of works, ish. yes, i have to restart pipewire 3 trillion times before every time i want to use audio. yes, emacs hangs if some json file contains too many {{{{. yes, nobody understands any loving placement of ui elements and the like in open-source programs. but at least they kind of do what someone intended. because at least someone actually cared enough to put their time into the thing unpaid. and if i don't like it, i can probably fix it.
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I use Apple, OP. it just works.
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wow software sucks, shocking
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use better software, op
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Mar 19, 2022 15:33
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tazjin posted:seriously. Didn't read, but $52.99 a month (less if you're a student) and you can subscribe to the Adobe Creative Cloud program and use industry-leading, polished software like Photoshop™ and After Effects™ like I do. Stop being a cheap piece of poo poo.
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idk if the creative cloud suite is really the best counter to OP's thesis that paid software sucks poo poo and is designed by assholes
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Mar 19, 2022 16:01
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It's some of the best stuff that I've ever used and every person that complains about adobe software being bad last used it on a ppc mac with a round mouse
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someone should study the very specific way linux breaks your brain so you're unable to use any software not made by other linux users without having some sort of extreme meltdown
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carry on then posted:someone should study the very specific way linux breaks your brain so you're unable to use any software not made by other linux users without having some sort of extreme meltdown yospos, bithc
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anyway, paging rotor
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carry on then posted:someone should study the very specific way linux breaks your brain so you're unable to use any software not made by other linux users without having some sort of extreme meltdown there's almost assuredly a pharmaceutical that works on fossbrain in 2022
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Jonny 290 posted:It's some of the best stuff that I've ever used and every person that complains about adobe software being bad last used it on a ppc mac with a round mouse anythng you can do with creative cloud you can instead do with some combination of the gimp, inkscape, blender, audacity, etc
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i have done sound production for 27 years. audacity is dogshit (nobody uses audition anyways, real heads use their old copy of sound forge 7). its also 2022 and we don't use products called "the gimp". inkscape is moderately neat but photoshop is still a ferrari to inkscape's v6 honda accord. you're not wrong but by using this hodgepodge of angry-bald-man-written oss "alternatives" you're just doing far more self dick punching than 50 bucks a month is worth
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Mar 19, 2022 17:12
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i forgot to mention darktable
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ah yeah i'm sure my manager will approve me using a thing named "dark table" to create a thing in my real job. absolutely zero bitcoin miners or code comments defending ephebophilia in that one
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Jonny 290 posted:i have done sound production for 27 years. audacity is dogshit (nobody uses audition anyways, real heads use their old copy of sound forge 7). its also 2022 and we don't use products called "the gimp". inkscape is moderately neat but photoshop is still a ferrari to inkscape's v6 honda accord. you're not wrong but by using this hodgepodge of angry-bald-man-written oss "alternatives" you're just doing far more self dick punching than 50 bucks a month is worth lol imagine simping for adobe
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Mar 19, 2022 18:09
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the only good software is amberpos
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SmokaDustbowl posted:lol imagine simping for adobe I'm talking software one uses in their job. stay in your lane.
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Jonny 290 posted:I'm talking software one uses in their job. stay in your lane. gonna brag about paying for netflix next
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vscode is good Free Software
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i think calling audacity dogshit is a little unfair. it's super useful for doing small things that aren't necessarily something you need for Everyday Work, free, lightweight, etc.
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Mar 19, 2022 19:16
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1password, alfred, and pixelmator pro work great op
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:vscode is good Free Software yeah it’s great
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didn't read but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8gealMDsg
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carry on then posted:someone should study the very specific way linux breaks your brain so you're unable to use any software not made by other linux users without having some sort of extreme meltdown i think once you use Linux (tm) you enter some kind of pact with the devil where normal software that works for normal people will eternally stop working for you, but other Linux (tm) native software will forever „kind of“ work for you
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you can use linux without making a big deal out of it op.
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fart simpson posted:i forgot to mention darktable you’re better off using your camera’s raw processor than darktable
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3893167
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vim works if you see a text editor as being a lifestyle accessory
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Jonny 290 posted:It's some of the best stuff that I've ever used and every person that complains about adobe software being bad last used it on a ppc mac with a round mouse i am very specifically complaining about adobe creative cloud, which i assure you i have used in tyool 2022. it's dogshit node garbage that sucks down ram like your mother at a gloryhole for the dual purposes of making sure you've paid for software and trying to sell you more software. everything is a webview and there are a number of bugs that can prevent it from ever signing in to your account to validate your licenses, just because the actual creative suite apps vary wildly because they're adobe apps with rather mixed heritage but they do often work. except adobe xd.
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post hole digger posted:you can use linux without making a big deal out of it op. maybe some people can, but clearly not everyone
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Jonny 290 posted:real heads use their old copy of sound forge 7 quote:inkscape is moderately neat but photoshop is still a ferrari to inkscape's v6 honda accord. you're not wrong but by using this hodgepodge of angry-bald-man-written oss "alternatives" you're just doing far more self dick punching than 50 bucks a month is worth by insisting selecting nodes, joining them and moving pathfinder somewhere else should work in a radically different way inkscape shoots itself in the foot with photoshop you could honestly improve a boatload of stuff by starting with copying everything and then making parts not suck. you could make filters fullscreen instead of in a tiny 1998 window. you could remove scitex and pcx file extensions from the save as menu, or make it so that you can select only those you want to see. you could easily make the layers work in a nonstupid way. adobe is absolutely garbo but all the alternatives are p much worse ps2022 updated itself and suddenly i could not make new files anymore. why, you ask? because i use an onboard graphics card and nobody decided to test with that and first you gotta disable hardware acceleration. they are raking in the millions, being more of an advertising company these days than anything creative, their codebase is a creaking pile of legacy poo poo, they make idiotic breaking changes (save as, save as copy) and they don’t test their own software for music production hell yeah, there are a few great oss plugins but by far nothing enough to replace the incumbents.
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adobe isn't good but "complex media manipulation" is one of those application domains that really benefits from having professionally-trained UX people around. adobe /has/ some of those even if they're not great at their jobs, whereas the OSS projects presumably have none because the only people that work on OSS professionally are working on (a marketing tool for) enterprise software or something that supports it. there is no enterprise software that is or depends on an image editor adobe gets the UX part reasonably okay, and puts out some cool novel mostly-math poo poo, but dear god outside that they've got some serious warts.
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akadajet posted:you’re better off using your camera’s raw processor than darktable yeah idk, i use the free sony version of capture one
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turns out the user's experience of using the software is is only weakly correlated to how much money it will make and how popular it will be
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lol
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what if it's software you're supposed to pay for but you crack it, op?Cat Face Joe posted:didn't read but lol and indeed lmao
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carry on then posted:someone should study the very specific way linux breaks your brain so you're unable to use any software not made by other linux users without having some sort of extreme meltdown i don't like having ads in my software op imagine sitting down in front of the machine that you use for a large fraction of your day and the chief marketing officer of the company that produces the software you use unzips and takes a long smelly piss on your face. and there's people saying things like "oh it's just a little piss gosh must you be so melodramatic" or "well you can ask him very nicely please sir i would like it if you do not piss on my face for the next hour sir please and thank you" and "they make little piss cups now with drainage tubes that you can attach to your forehead to collect the piss and route it elsewhere so that none of it gets onto your face" if i had to live in a world like that i'd think i was living in crazy world. but i don't because i use a linux based desktop operating system
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