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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 174 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (25 children)

Why not just use and support fully open source alternatives like Krita, Inkscape, Kdenlive, etc instead of giving money to Adobe?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 129 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Affinity is not affiliated with Adobe. And presumably because Affinity is higher quality than it's open source alternatives.

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if youre fine with relying on proprietary software you might as well just run it in a windows 11 ltsc iot enterprise vm

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That makes absolutely no sense

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i do it for Autodesk software, it works pretty well

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Windows is fucking miserable and Affinity is not.

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