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I've written a few articles in LibreOffice and the things I need to be able to do just can't be done in order to follow the structure of the zine I was writing for. It's a hobby zine and the work is free by everyone so they just reformatted it for me; but it still inconveniences others when things aren't within a certain expected standard. I do blame microsoft for it though; all office apps uses the same standard except microsoft, unfortunately all the users uses microsoft office...

and no, krita, inkscape, gimp, etc. can't replace Affinity. Affinity itself could barely replace Adobe in their first place. but it still has, for many. so it's not a learning issue. Affinity is more intuitive than Adobe, so in this case Adobe is just outdated.

but as for the open source, the issue is more than just a lack of features. The UI is at least 15 years out of date.

Professionally the software just isn't there; and it's a real shame too, because I feel very uncomfortable using ANY microsoft products (on principle). But as far as Photoshop goes, there is photopea which is a great free browser based clone. Sadly there is no illustrator or indesign browser based clones that can match the quality of photopea, and the only desktop apps up for the job of matching Adobe is currently the Affinity Suite.

Affinity is a one-time fee at around 80€ for a Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator clone that sprang unto existence literally to combat Adobe subscriptions. Except since using Affinity exclusively for a year now, it feels better than Adobe ever did. Much more modern. Only missing a rare few of features that have work-arounds.

But, as OP says. Linux support is sorely missed. Because it's much smaller than adobe there is a lack of community effort to get it to run on linux and if you manage to make it run, it craps out on you.

Since I work professionally with digital art and print, Krita, GIMP, etc. are sadly nowhere closer viable options (I have tried). Unfortunately I had to give up and install Windows last week solely to run Affinity properly, all other software that I use for work runs smoothly in linux, and like 95% of my preferred games (I too refuse to pay a subscription on principle).

there is a ton of famous people active on Mastodon tho. George Takei. John Scalzi. James Gunn. Cory Doctorow. Charlie Stross. William Gibson. Ron Gilbert.

Some left a year ago tho, probably for BlueSky, like Linus Torvald, Stephen Fry, Mark Ruffalo, Greta Thunberg, Felicia Day, etc.

A bunch of official european channels too like the european commission.

or like the anti-pirate bill from a few years back that had more votes than politicians and no one gave a shit or even remembers that little insane corruption.

Mailspring desktop client has a pretty neat UI imo.

while he simultaneously claims AI is less than a decade away from eradicating all humans. how very philanthropist of him.

are they even able to produce the parts domestically?

it's not just america. the entire west had to switch from the keynesian system to the friedman system after america and the uk's pinochet experiment. unfortunately friedmans system doesn't work if everyone does it; and the patch is currently to take advantage of the poor as new loan takers are born every day and it's currently the only way to inject more cash into the economy.

when we (capitalist nations) stopped taxing the rich; it already started going south in the 90ies with the housing crisis and some radical adjustments that had been made to rights of business and the rich vs workers, and they had to find a way to keep re-injecting money into the economy now that infinite growth had come to a crawl because friedmans experiment in chile turned out to not actually work long-term. it's part of the reason why we had the bank crisis in 2008, and the UK was actually the cause of it, but iceland became the fall guy. they were lending out money that didn't exist, and the money you paid back was taken as profits. after the crisis, they had to figured out a new way to do it as they couldn't increase taxes on the rich (thanks reagan), and the new way was by lowering rates, dismantling social housing and similar services, etc. while artificially increasing house costs etc. this way - not only are there no affordable housing; but you are socially encouraged to take loans that you can't afford. so all these now socially acceptable burdens like house loans, car loans, school loans, etc. have been created solely to keep GDP going up and to re-inject money into the economy now that the rich gets to act like black holes sucking everything up from everyone else.

so, sure, it's the poors fault that friedman economics put in action by reagan didn't actually work and they had to patch it by forcing the underclass (new suckers born every day who are eventually forced to take a loan and re-inject into the economy) in an infinite growth economy with finite resources.

i mean, if your not astroturfing then don't spread disinformation?

this is a bit bigger than joe smoe overspending on his credit cards.

this is the 6th time in the past 2 days i see this argument. blaming the people for using the system that has been forced on us over the past 20 years to bolster GDP.

i smell an attempted narrative change.