- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
Do you think this action is justified or was it exaggerated?
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They had it coming…
Adobe used to let you buy their software, and you could use it for life. But their new stuff would be so much better that companies and people would buy the new version every time.
Now it’s a subscription with barely any innovation. You have to pay every month just to keep the software you have. And it’s been a decade since any decent innovation from adobe. And on top of that: they charge a cancellation fee, even to students who cancel because they can’t afford the subscription.
And now they’re integrating ai. It’s amazing tool, but the models they use are built on theft. Theft of of the hard work of the very people they claim to support.
And now they think they can just walk onto a platform they didn’t bribe and expect to be liked
They didn’t just kill the for life license btw. They would harass you literally every year to relinquish that license for some “great deal” on the new monthly license (source : I know several people with old Photoshop licenses)
I have an old cs6 license. And they just started pretending it doesn’t exist. I had to find “alternative” means to keep using what I paid for. It’s handicapped now tho
What the shit? How the hell can they charge a cancellation fee? That should be made illegal.
I just looked into it, and holy shit. A cancellation fee for a digital service is lunacy. It’s not like you’re booking a finite resource that you stopped the company from offering to someone else that would have used it. (Like cancelling a booking for an event.)
Canceled my long time Lightroom subscription last month. Fuck them.
Did you find an alternative?
I’m currently using Luminar Neo. They offer subscriptons but they still have a buy-once license too, and it is regularly on sale. I still prefer the actual experience of using Lightroom, but Luminar is close enough for now.
I’m not the one above, but I use digiKam for organizing and Darktable for editing. Though it’s not necessary to use both. You could also organize your photos in Darktable or when you only need very basic editing, do that in digiKam.
It’s different from Lightroom but I wouldn’t say harder. The docs of Darktable are very detailed and good to understand.
Is there a use case where someone is actually paying less under the subscription model?
Yes when they get fed up and cancel their subscription.
I started freelancing on the side recently, needed a PDF editor, Acrobat was cheaper than Bluebeam, so I thought I’d give it a try after not using it for years. It sucked. On top of being inferior in every use case it was infuriating to even have installed. It said it was opting me in for usage data collection but I could opt out in account management, I never found that option. And it had a dozen and a half background processes running on startup that would restart after being killed in task manager. Had to make a little batch file to kill them all at once. Adobe, the software and the company, is cancer. On purpose. Being mean to Adobe online is absolutely justified.
Libreoffice can edit pdf’s. You may have to fidget a bit with it before you get it running well tho
Yeah, I have Libreoffice, I like the word processor and spreadsheet program, but wasn’t quite as happy with its handing of PDFs. That could definitely be user error/ignorance though.
I really liked it’s pdf features. But then again, I find acrobat to be unbearable and that was the only real competitor I knew
