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For people who actually use them, are current open alternatives that bad in comparison?
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This also affects enterprises that also create proprietary graphical arts tools. If the office uses adobe, then you will use adobe because when your co-worker sends you a
.psdfile then you're going to be a team player or get fired. You can apply this thinking to most computer programs where a proprietary instance of it has become a hegemon. It's sometimes called the Network Effect where the use of the program spreads not because of technical merit or respect but because there is no other viable option.GNU Imp, Krita, Kdenlive, etc are not faulty programs, as mentioned, they can do 90% of tasks that most people need technically speaking (It's the 10% that Adobe has that causes users pain and frustration). It's just that they don't get enough attention and support because if you want to survive in capitalism you can't argue with your boss.
But also if China does do a Deepseek on Adobe then humanity will be in a far better place.