• magic_lobster_party@kbin.run
    403·
    6 months ago

    IntelliJ is great for organizational settings. I would never use it for home use as there are many good free alternatives for that kind of setting.

    Most Adobe tools don’t have any good free alternatives even for home use.

    So jetbrains is “acceptable” because I don’t need to open my own wallet.

    • bort@sopuli.xyz
      25·
      6 months ago

      Most Adobe tools don’t have any good free alternatives even for home use.

      inkscape is on a level with illustrator (maybe even better)

      for drawing: try krita

      if you want to pay money (much much less than for adobe): Affinity is on a level with fotoshop

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          8·
          6 months ago

          Sheesh, FOSS licenses really are the only force in the universe that can stop this nonsense.

          I remember shelling out for Substance indie licenses thinking it would be a good investment. Shortly after they’re:

          • part of the “adobe family” (yaaay! /s)
          • Not gonna make it subscription only, c’mon guys. It’s ok.
          • No seriously, we hear you, you’ll have options! Definitely!
          • Newsletter: Ok we’re subscription only, “Get your keys for the super out of date version because we’re just deleting it from human history now.”
          • SaaS cloud only and you’re gonna like it, peasant.

          Never trusting private software like that ever again.

    • prof@infosec.pub
      16·
      6 months ago

      Another upside of Jetbrains over Adobe is that you can get edu-licenses that allow you to use every software of theirs.

      The best deal our university could get from Adobe was 25% off on Photoshop if at least 200 students bought it.

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
      5·
      6 months ago

      I would never use anything else for Java or Kotlin. Through the free and open source JetBrains IDE of course.