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Shoutouts

Thanks to the following commenters below for additional recommendations that I added to this post!

  • bruhduh
  • Toes

Free Open Source Alternatives

[Visual/Graphical]

For all visual/graphical artists I would personally recommend switching from Photoshop over to


[Audio]

For audio migration I'd recommend switching from Soundbooth to


[PDF]

Acrobat Reader to


[Video]

Premiere to


There's also an excellent thread started by urska@lemmy.ca

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[-] realbadat@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

FOSS is always a better option, as of today I don't think anything compares. And since they aren't a big company doing shady things, the licensed version is permanent, no big company buyout is going to impact anything other than upgrades.

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