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

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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 [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Man thanks for not suggesting GIMP I hate that thing so unintuitive, like bro you're no blender, you're not allowed to be unintuitive

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Anti-libre software, Adobe anything, bans us from removing malicous source code and service as a software substitute is even worse, so else did we expect?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whoever bought into the whole cloud crap won't care.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

I care, but I don't know how else to edit my photos on my phone and seamlessly back them up.

I use Lightroom on a Google Pixel. It costs $10/mo for a terabyte of storage and an editor that's constantly being updated. I'm not arguing that it's the best option, I just don't know any solid alternatives.

If anyone else has a solution this use case, essentially the same as someone who wants to leave Google Photos' storage/editing suite, I'd be happy to ditch Adobe.

Edit: a word

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=ZI1wFN8pbXM

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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