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Hey! Author here. Glad we're feeling the same. At the very end I've linked to another page where I maintain an organic list of software and interesting bits of internet that I admire and find useful as a creative, for other creatives alike.

Just today for the purposes of ending my blog post in a good light I created the Software category in the directory, to list every alternative I found interesting to Adobe's offerings.

Here the direct link to it! https://martyr.shop/directory/#software

Personally, I use Affinity, Resolve, Darktable, Blender, and Figma. This pretty much covers any visual creative endeavor I have, very comfortably. As a side project, I'm creating patches for Wine to make Affinity work much better under Linux, because Microsoft is also smelling much like Adobe :)