Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

• sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products?

  Watching YouTube videos, reading manuals, just using alternatives, and asking questions to other people in places like forums, stack exchange, and the like. The self taught route is a completely valid option when the whole world is-wrapped up in nonsense. My experience post school taught me more in 6 months in the field than schooling and prepping for certification exams ever taught me. If you watched that 2nd James Lee video he goes through what he did to switch to DaVinci.

  Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market?

  LMGTFY

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  Many of these programs are free and open source and available across all platforms.

  as far as jobs go, if it’s like mechanics, you bring your own tools and do the job required. Even if Adobe products are provided, use alternatives when and as often as possible. Then when the opportunity presents itself show how you did your work without Adobe to those with purchasing power at the company. Change isn’t going to happen overnight.

  Where the easy path that most will take?

  I never claimed that ditching Adobe would be easy. My opinion is that it is necessary for the health of the industry.

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  • thesmokingman@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You haven’t linked actual jobs and programs. Your snide Google search was a GitHub repo, not school programs or job postings that show your anecdotal dream is a reality. Your foundational assumption is that everyone wants to grow exactly like you did (ie not the easy path) which is completely wrong.

    You do not appear to actually understand the audience you’re holier than. This the same conversation that’s been happening in the Linux world for more than two decades. Good luck changing the world.

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    • sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not going to do all the work for you. Go into business for yourself or check indeed or some other job site. I honestly thought I was being trolled with how little you tried to understand or put forth some modicum of effort, but now I somehow think it’s genuine that you need someone to hold your hand through the entire process. Change is scary and often not easy. I don’t know how else to break it to ya.

      If you are the audience, then the industry is doomed to be stuck in the Adobe abusive relationship until some self starters take over. All it takes is some effort to break a habit, effect change, or start something new. If you expect to have other people change things for yourself, well good luck with that.

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