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kadu ,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

I don't touch Adobe software. Not only due to the abusive subscription, but even the pirated versions will install Creative Cloud and a thousand supporting applications that permanently modify your Windows shell, explorer, scheduled tasks and many more system features.

Riven ,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Dude I did it on my previous pc and it was super aids to fully remove it. Never again, I'm sticking with Foss as much as possible now.
Photopea is great as a photoshop alternative for anyone who isn't a professional.

lost_faith ,

Is it easier to use than Gimp?

Riven ,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Last time I used gimp was like 6 years ago so take my opinion with a grain of salt but I do feel Photopea is easier to use.

I have no idea which one is more powerful but for the average lowly user like myself Photopea has had all I need and then some. It's also a browser only application which for me is a boon but I can see some people preferring a download instead. I would recommend going on the site and messing around a bit to get a feel, it's free to use.

Z4rK ,

I can hardly remember the last time any notification was not some kind of spam or self-notification.

I turn 99.95% of notifications off on any platform. The worst offenders are the apps that will show me a permanent in-app notification that I have turned off notification permissions… especially those that do so blocking the regular UI of the app to tell me this. Even some apps I’ve paid for do this. I condemn those to the deepest pits of app-hell.

muhyb ,

Sumatra PDF for the win(dows).

Mabexer ,

Yep! But sadly I still have to use Adobe when I need to sign documents...

Fiivemacs ,

I straight up tell companies to mail the form to me now.

All my banking is on paper, insurance, etc...its ALL paper copies. I'm not filtering through 4000 spam emails from companies to find my shit, then deal with subscriptions and other crap just to send things back.

Send me paper, and I will mail it back. Countless companies just can't process things anymore, it's hilarious

muhyb ,

Not sure but I think you can do that with Okular.

MangoPenguin ,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Firefox can open and edit PDFs, just uninstall the Adobe junk.

kylian0087 ,

Wait it can edit PDFs? Huh who knew! Thnx for the tip.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

It is a relatively new feature

sgibson5150 ,
@sgibson5150@slrpnk.net avatar

If you can avoid Adobe, FoxIt Reader isn't too bad. I have to uncheck some offer every time it updates, but I've never had it bug me otherwise.

MangoPenguin ,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Firefox can open/edit PDFs too, so you could get rid of Foxit since it's obnoxious as well.

sgibson5150 ,
@sgibson5150@slrpnk.net avatar

It's more to do with workflow for me. If I close the wrong Firefox window I could lose my session with 10k tabs. 😆

I know there's ways to recover but last time I really considered it I found it more comfortable to have a separate app for PDFs. Do what you feel. ✌️

BTW I don't work for FoxIt nor has any money changed hands between me and them. It's just what I wound up using circa 2015.

teft ,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

Uninstall and use a different PDF reader. I’m partial to sumatra PDF.

kadu ,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

Sumatra is fantastic for reading PDFs, but it can't edit them. In that case I recommend PDF Gear.

possiblylinux127 ,
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip avatar

Or FF

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

The abbreviation for Firefox is "Fx", not "FF". :)

n3cr0 ,

Don't they know, Windows comes with a preinstalled PDF reader, making this Adobe bloatware pretty much obsolete?

Kelly ,

Yes, they know. The message is asking the user to change from their default to Adobe Reader.

dual_sport_dork ,
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Crap like this is why I use Corel.

warm ,

Adobe is a cancer the second it is installed. Avoid this shitty company if possible, there's loads of fantastic and better alternatives to their products these days.

RGB3x3 ,

Is there an actual decent alternative that does digital signatures with CACs that doesn't also require a costly subscription?

Natanael ,

https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/signing-pdfs-with-cac-under-linux/

Does any of that work?

OR3X OP ,

It's a work laptop. My personal stuff is running FOSS.

haulyard ,
@haulyard@lemmy.world avatar

Have a recommendation for replacing Lightroom? Having a hard time finding an good alternative photo catalog mgmt solution.

warm ,

Not really my kind of thing, so I don't. While adobe is a pile of shit, they do admittedly have some good software under all the extra shit piled on top and their suite is a lot larger than I remember these days!

foofiepie ,

Replying in the hope you get a solid answer to this. I need a good photo workflow tool and would like it to be FOSS.

ricdeh ,
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

Darktable!

foofiepie ,

Thank you! I’ll check it out.

DrWeevilJammer ,
@DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml avatar

Darktable (or the fork Ansel) or Rawtherapee and Digikam should get you where you need to be.

melpomenesclevage ,

But also, we need an illegalist project to steal adobe'ssource code and release it to the world for free.

Fuck remote hackers, we need infiltrators.

lemmylem ,

I want someone to release the source code to ChatGPT, Sora, and everything else.

melpomenesclevage ,

Know anybody with a good tech résumé and better politics?

Don't, um, tell me. But that's the starting point. I'd say that or forgery, but those are most of the same skills you'd use to actually get the thing, so...

Buddahriffic ,

Thing is with those models, it's not just the source code you'd need to do what they do. You'd also either need the model weights or to train them on a massive amount of data.

lemmylem ,

Oh, I forgot! RELEASE THE DATASETS!!!!

SamsonSeinfelder ,

This company is insufferable.

Passerby6497 ,

There's a reason I have my windows configured for do not disturb/focus mode, I can't say I've seen a notification come through that was actually relevant for me. The vast majority of what I've seen come through notifications are app spam, and I ain't got time for that

OR3X OP ,

Agreed. Seems the notification tray in Windows is just a catch-all for spam (mostly from MS themselves)

Passerby6497 ,

Nah, browsers are so much worse, but that's because most users blindly accept notifications from any sketch website then call and cry to IT because they "got a virus".

I don't miss my days supporting end users.....

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

We configured an allowlist of domains allowed to send notifications through our GPOs, everything else is blocked to the end-users. It reduced the amount of calls related to "virus alert" for sure.

kadu ,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions

RGB3x3 ,

I absolutely hate when Windows will give you a different notification for each email that comes in, then an additional one to tell you "mail has new messages." Get out of my fucking way!

Kelly ,

As far as I can tell outlook will call out the title of the first 3 emails in a minute, then if further emails arrive you get the general message.

Its really just a 'we are rate limiting our notifications, check your inbox' message.

slazer2au ,

Time to take away the notification permission of reader.

cloudless ,
@cloudless@lemmy.cafe avatar

Or take away Adobe and use an alternative.

DarkThoughts ,

Or put away Windows use an alternative.

slazer2au ,

Not everyone has that option. I can only used approved software. Took 3 months to get WSL and Hyper-V approved for my desktop

Jako301 ,

You got Hyper-V approved on a work desktop? Man I wish I had that much luck.

KillerTofu , (edited )

I have to have adobe installed on my work computer and fuck it’s intrusive everythingness. Fuck em.

Granixo , (edited )
@Granixo@feddit.cl avatar

Nobody needs Adobe's PDF Reader or Creative Tools anymore.

There are alternatives all over the web.

Update: I meant for personal use. I know that workplaces force us to use the same tools (and same versions of said tools) that they use.

Tolookah ,

... Unless mandated by IT.

kautau ,

Right, or unless you work in an industry where photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere, or after effects are the standard. There’s plenty of great software out there, but good luck opening a complex photoshop document in anything but photoshop, or a complex premiere pro project in anything but premiere. It sucks to be chained to their products, but it’s naive to say “nobody needs them, just switch”

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

There's also a compatibility issue between different people. If you don't use Premiere, but everyone else does, sharing work is going to be a problem.

Granixo ,
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https://feddit.cl/pictrs/image/47121c43-6320-422f-bf15-06c1676ac59e.jpeg

KillerTofu ,

Sure, I don’t use it on my personal devices but I can’t install the better tools on my work computer.

GONADS125 ,

PDF Gear is the free alternative I use. Adobe can eat read a dick.

MangoPenguin ,
@MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Firefox can open/edit PDFs too.

Granixo ,
@Granixo@feddit.cl avatar

Damn, didin't know about that! 😁👍

Patches ,

How do you edit a locked PDF? What is the alternative?

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