Bugs bunny in suit I wish adobe a very pleasant downfall. The stock drops.

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[–] 106 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Wow. Thor really is an asshole.

This message brought to you by an open-source animator. Krita, Blender, and OpenToonz for all.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    What is the context? (Im out of the loop)

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    PirateSoftware is an extreme narcissist who was previously cancelled for having too huge an ego. He's a real asshole.

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    [–] 44 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    A few years ago, I subscribed to Adobe for about 2 weeks. But my conscience wouldn't let me, I had to cancel the sub and get a refund.

    Deep down, it's like I knew something was wrong. And that was before I got introduced to Adobe memes.

    Turns out Inkscape/GIMP/Shotcut are good enough for my needs. The Affinity suite is pretty good too though. I hope it gets supported on Linux eventually.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago* (15 children)
    • Krita for painting
    • Davinci Resolve for editing. You can also buy the suite for a one time payment.
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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    Yeah, I know. I've never used Krita, but I do have the paid version of Davinci Resolve. But it can be tricky to make it work on Linux, I only use it when I need complex editing. Shotcut is simpler to use and more straight forward.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    I use Krita!

    I'm an open-source artist. All the tools and software I have ever used to make my art are FLOSS. It's my deeply held personal belief that the ability to create art should be as free as pencil and paper, and I want my work to be living proof of that ideal.

    I've used Krita, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, and other tools exclusively for over a decade. I never could afford Adobe's shit, and I realized pretty quickly that nearly anything Photoshop can do, a bit of savvy and some extra time in Gimp and Krita can do equally well. My only complaint is that they can't support Photoshop's brush file formats. Which is absolutely a dealbreaker for most committed artists I know, because your brushes make or break your workflow and even your entire art style. So switching isn't for everyone, and that's fine.

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  • [+] 40 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 36 points 8 months ago

    Proton and Pirate Software gloating over the "downfall" of another...misery loves company I guess.

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (30 children)

    Adobe, Proton and Pirate Software - could we have one account that's not completely terrible?

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    [–] 28 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    As a someone who been using either GIMP or pirated CS6 since 2012, havent been keeping hand on an Adobe pulse. What did they do this time? I know about subscription over the one time purchase thing. But what happened recently?

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    They're calling it quits on their animation software, and a lot of people who used it in their workflow are very upset.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Sometimes I look at the Unity Game Engine's stock history after that one "destroy all indie gaming" plan, and I remember companies are volatile organizations at the consumers' mercy.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Early 2010s I asked the company I worked for to approve some free game engines to be installed. The legal department returned a big no with pages of why Unity should not be allowed in the premises. We proceeded with Unreal, Blender and eventually Godot as tools any employee could install.

    Unity was bad back them, it is just that people did not read the agreements and tech sheet. Their new leadership just made that more apparent.

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    [–] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Abode: "We should charge money to rotate a PDF. No not the image itself, just rotate view. Gotta make that a paid feature."

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    [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    This is so nice. What happened that made it fall?

    Edit: looked for the stock prices, and the chart at a monthly scale and up doesn't look exciting at all

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe because they announced they were killing the Adobe Animate? That's the only thing ive heard but I'm not in-the-know.

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    [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    One of the perks I had when I worked at a print shop was that they gave you a CS6 license, if you asked for it.

    I don’t even mess with Adobe anymore. PhotoPea covers my needs almost completely. But then again, I don’t really do much in PhotoPea but mess around, making silly things.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I believe hbomberguy's next video is all about Adobe.

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    [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Adobe is utter garbage. I hate that they have the market cornered. Their monthly subscription model is infuriating.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Stallman was right.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Please and thank you!

    I have to use Adobe Cloud at my current job and I hate it with a passion beyond words. It hangs constantly for a minute or more, Adobe have "lost" my credentials a few times making a majority of my job impossible to do for days while they fix it, it constantly nags me to use its AI, Adobe Links thinks it is the mid 90's since uploading anything takes forever, and the web interface makes me contemplate murder.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    What alternative do we have ? Affinity was bought by canva years ago.

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen is both selfish and short-sighted. Their weak leadership only compounds their problems.

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    The official proton vpn account posts memes?

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    OOTL - what did they do this time?

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Apparently, they gave amateur cartoon animators 1 month to save their works before they will remove Adobe Animate off Adobe Suite. Adobe Flash would give them 3 years, and software would just change slightly. But this time it is not the same.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    PirateSoftware is still a thing? Edit: name writing

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I loved the Affinity stuff. Had completely replaced Adobe with Affinity before they got bought up and killed off. 

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Affinity photo isn't dead, they released the suite for free, but did unfortunately inject AI into it, which thankfully you can ignore if you don't pay for it.

    However, as with all proprietary products owned by investment corporations, it's currently at the 'capture the market' phase, after which it will enshittify, putting us in the same situation we are with adobe now. The only long-term solution is to adopt and donate to open-source alternatives, like Krita, Scribus, Inkscape, and Kdenlive.

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