[mrinfinitiesx]

We'll come back with 'We don't pay monthly subscription models for shady companies like adobe who then charge you a large fee just to cancel your monthly subscription fee to use photoshop' there's cool things like photopea, but yeah there's no rebuttal for Windows only and Windows-specific made software.

To each their own. I'm rooting for linux desktop to be the future though. For gamers, for photo editors, artists. All of us.

[t0bia_s]

Adobe softwate is best we have on market on audio-visual production. Thats why it has monopoly.

I really would like to use just linux many years, but I cannot because I'm unable to compete without Adobe software.

[talldayo]

> Adobe softwate is best we have on market on audio-visual production.

It's good, but besides Premier I really don't think many of Adobe's products are hot shit nowadays. You can do most of the same compositing you do in Sony Vegas with Blender and Davinci Resolve; today's tools are diverse enough that you don't need Adobe. And for music production and photo editing, I don't even think Adobe is a competitor. Affinity Photo eats Photoshop's lunch, and everyone else that wasn't going to pay for a photo editor can use GIMP or Photopea.

Unless you explicitly work at an Adobe-only shop, I really see no reason to continue using modern Adobe products. The value is just so bad compared to what you can buy elsewhere.

[t0bia_s]

After Effects does not have competition.

Adobe product has dynamic-links between each others, so you can easily make cut in Premiere, motion graphic in After Effects with assets from Photoshop, sound and music in Audition and all changes are visible instantly in one project.

For photography unfortunately all other editors are impractical, except Capture One which has even worse price policy.

Don't let me start with collaboration with other studios or plugin compatibility.

While Affinity might be true alternative for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, it is not compatible with linux.