Andy Young, an ex-Microsoft senior software engineer, posted a message on X/Twitter bemoaning that even with his $1,600 Core i9 CPU and 128 GB of RAM, Windows...
i would hesitate to say that you need it. You probably depend quite heavily on it. But even drugs you quite literally don’t need, even though you can become chemically dependent on them, you can still break off, it’s not easy but doable. And this is software we’re talking about.
i’m not saying you shouldn’t use adobe, but i’m also not saying that you’re trying hard enough to not use them. Humans are creatures of adaption. Given the time, effort, and motivation, a considerable amount of work can be done in situations where you wouldn’t expect it.
i would hesitate to say that you need it. You probably depend quite heavily on it. But even drugs you quite literally don’t need, even though you can become chemically dependent on them, you can still break off, it’s not easy but doable. And this is software we’re talking about.
i’m not saying you shouldn’t use adobe, but i’m also not saying that you’re trying hard enough to not use them. Humans are creatures of adaption. Given the time, effort, and motivation, a considerable amount of work can be done in situations where you wouldn’t expect it.
Photoshop doesn’t really have an equal. Gimp pretends to be in the same category, but it’s light years behind.