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Software companies HATE him! (lemmy.today)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

I hadn't used my CS6 for years but recently needed Premiere Pro. I hauled out the discs, installed it using an external optical drive, and searched old Outlook PST files for the serial number. It installed on my Win 11 laptop, and it activated when I typed in the serial number.

Long live CS6! Adobe won't get any more money from me.

I did get lucky when I bought it, though. I ordered and paid for CS5.5 Education version, so that was about AUD$450 instead of AUD$2200, and what turned up was CS5.5, a free licenced copy of CS4 "to help with 32-bit to 64-bit transition" and a download code for CS6, as I'd ordered 5.5 after 6 had been announced. I ended up with licenced copies of CS4, CS5.5, and CS6 for AUD$450

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I still have PSP9 on my PC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Krita seems like a good free open-source altherative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Also works really well on my android tablet with a stylus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

For illustration work at least. Photoshop is not the best for illustrations either, almost all illustration-focused apps easily blow it out of the water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Hell, I was still using PS6 on Win10 until I finally switched to Mint a few months ago. I had to reinstall it repeatedly but it still worked.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I too still have the cracked installers for CS5 and CS6 but... I switched to Gimp and Krita a very long time ago.

I remember doing an animation internship on the pilot of a TV show most here have heard of (Not gonna dox myself) and CS5 was definitely available at the time, but the studio was still using Flash MX because that was the last version available that Adobe hadn't fuckin wrecked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Sup fellow film person (stunts here). I believe it. When creatives find something that works they tend to stick with it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm an artist, and I have that version too, running it under qemu/Win10 (it won't run on Wine), under my Debian-Testing main OS. However, I have actually moved to Gimp 3 recently for all my work. I use it to make collages ( https://www.instagram.com/eugenia_loli ) and edit my scanned watercolor paintings: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli The only problem is that Gimp can't read my old PSDs that have adjustment layers correctly, so I load them first either on that old Photoshop, or online on Photopea, and then export them as TIFFs, to load them back to Gimp. For my newer work, I just use Gimp all the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Your work is really good! I particularly enjoyed the person in the bath tub with the ankle monitor and the mice sharing a clothesline between their plant houses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Loli

Uhh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's my real name :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

That makes sense. These days I am wary of clicking links with "loli" in them especially when they are posted on tech related places. I liked the desert horsey.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I was expecting different art with that username

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

I can't believe they haven't released an "update" that breaks it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Let me know when we can download cars. For a friend.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

gimp and krita up in this bitch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I mean, if you buy software and expect 0 updates afterwards I guess that’s fair

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

There often were updates and they were free...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean honestly, the old model was kind of dope. You pay a fairly high price for the software. Updates for that version are free. When they come out with enough new features to release a new milestone version you got to choose whether you upgrade to the milestone or stay on your existing version. True critical security patches were released for At least the last couple of versions.

But you get to decide when the features warrant you buying again. You got to choose with your wallet and the companies had to deal with that.

If they would have put a bunch of crap in about having the rights to AI scrape all of your content in the old version people would have just said fuck it I'm not upgrading it. But as it stands, if you don't like it you have to not use the software at all.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you buy software at a version point, (vs the subscription model), why would you expect an update for it? Particularly for free? You chose to buy at a frozen point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

That model always had the tacit agreement that the company releases early, and the users accept that they are part of a large testing base with one or two major updates to come. Further to this, continued support in the early life drives more sales. There's a spectrum of users from bleeding edge to 4 versions behind. Some will hold out and never upgrade if key bugs remain, so updates make business sense. Software of this complexity has to be this way to strike a balance to move new features forward.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Because it's beneficial for the software company's reputation. People are more likely to buy the software when they know that it's not going to get a permanently unpatched zero-day the moment the next version comes out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

In this day and age people expect security and operational patches. It’s hard work maintaining software, even if it is feature complete.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm still using CS3. It's the only software on my pc at this point that doesn't have dark mode. I also found out recently that it should run perfectly on Linux using wine, so I intend to try that soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

One of us! One of us!

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