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I've been a LONG time user of Adobe, grew up with PhotoDeluxe and pre-suite Photoshop and used every version of Cretive Suite since my parents ran a graphic design business. I made all my high school essays in InDesign CS4. Suffice to say, growing bitter over proprietary software in the last few years has been painful but I'm doing my best to move to only FOSS.

There was a point in time I tried replacing Premiere with DaVinci Resolve, but I quickly noticed it was oriented for color correction, and some of its features for composition were locked behind Fusion. These days, if you can believe it, I do all my video editing in Blender. It's still got a long way to go, but since v4 the VSE has gotten really good. I'd like to try kdenlive when I finish migrating to Linux, but on Windows it basically doesn't support GPU encoding which is a dealbreaker for me.

Adobe Fresco is replaced quite well by Krita. It has a learning curve but is far more powerful as a result. I'm still learning but I'm impressed.

I don't really like Scribus, but I don't really have a need for software like InDesign, so I haven't had to worry about it.

I've used Inkscape way back just because it was portable when Illustrator wasn't. It was pretty minimal back then but I can see it's grown greatly in depth. The workflow is enough to be disruptive, but not too badly to work through I think.

And finally the titan, Photoshop. It's such a massive and ubiquitous software that it simply cannot be replaced by any single program. At least since I moved to drawing in Fresco I don't use PS for that, but again Krita is a fine replacement. Pixel art in PS is very normal too, but that's replaced quite nicely by Aseprite, it's more capable in that space and still quite easy to use if you don't know its features. It's the photo editing and general purpose image editing that's the real challenge. I keep hoping that version 3 of GIMP will magically fix its problems, but in the meantime it's frustratingly clear that it's built by software engineers, not artists, but it's often made out that it's everybody else's burden to forget everything they know and start from scratch to learn its special workflow. There's an interesting patch someone made called PhotoGIMP that's supposed to improve that, but I haven't spent enough time with it to really say. Currently my only alternative is Photopea. It works great right now, but I don't like that it's a web app and not FOSS. I really hope I can eventually find an alternative that I can finally be comfortable with.

I have a long term project to migrate my machines, and the introduction of recall pressured me to move faster, but I still have some hurdles to overcome that just require a time sink on my part.

I completely understand where this is coming from, but I'm just a little confused about what the solution would be. For the average consumer and certainly the target users for Windows, shipping with a browser is the expected norm, and none are expected to open a terminal, much less run tools like winget. I guess you could have a setup dialog of major browsers to choose from?

Now that Citra isn't available, Nintendo knows I have no choice but to buy Samus Returns on my Switch!

This has been a dream of mine and one of my friend's as well. There's a small handful of blockers that I've slowly been transitioning but the upcoming windows pain points you mentioned are definitely recent motivators for me. I'm glad you made it and I hope the rest of us can too! I look forward to reading more about your experience.

The source is literally just VSCode with a different label. What benefit does that have?

That's a truly awful take. Especially for people who have since learned to be more mindful about their data. We need solidarity to fight corporations, not punitive treatment.

Right, exactly, which is why they launched with a FOSS license. Oh, wait--

Imagine the money going to VSCode which actually is the one getting contributions

Except this isn't money going to a FOSS project, it's money to some guys whose only keyboard is StackOverflow's The Key.

In general I'd agree, although Citra feels like an exception. I'm not quite sure why they targeted that one so hard.

I've had almost all my posts on Reddit go up in smoke for one pedantic reason or another. I haven't posted here much out of that fear but I think it's much better here.

Oh, that's how I'm supposed to react. Good thing he put it in there! /s

I hate that the term "review bombing" completely generalized to just "a lot of negatively reviewing something". Review bombing is supposed to be negative reviewing that's not relevant to the game, like when it was originally used to speak out against publishers, because, you know, that's the only thing that seemed to get their attention. Now we just have the tools and excuses to just kill genuine criticism.

Isn't that what /srs is for? /s was sarcasm before any other tonal indicators.

I had GPM for years, and dealt with YTM for about a year before getting sick of it. Spotify isn't bad, and a lot of alternatives the comments mention I'm sure are good as well. Honestly though, I ended up just archiving all my music in a Jellyfin server and paying $5 for the Symfonium app. It's pretty nice.

I literally thought the correction in my head while in the theater. It took some restraint to not mention anything to my partner lol

I just finished watching the debate myself, I don't know if she dodged more than once, she certainly didn't do as much dodging as he did. But she 100% dodged answering why the Biden administration hasn't removed Trump-era tariffs without even a hint of addressing it. I'm not a big fan of what that entails, I think globalization in US economy might be coming to a screeching halt no matter who gets elected.

Do you have a source for Search Generative Experience using a separate model? As far as I'm aware, all of Google's AI services are powered by the Gemini LLM.

I feel you man lmao