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> "The evaluation version is fully functional, but is restricted to the light theme only." They really know their target audience.

skrebbel 8y ago
Also I think they learned a lesson from how many people simply grew a habit to click "cancel" in the "please buy this" reminder in Sublime Text.
- polyvisual 8y ago
  I'm so lazy and it's too easy to click "Cancel"... I have a license but a year after re-installing ST I still haven't added it :/
  - badpun 8y ago
    Just search your inbox for "sublime license", and copy the license into Sublime. The whole operation takes me below 1 minute on a new machine.
    - mstade 8y ago
      It'd be nice if there was a command line option for this actually. I have my machine setup almost entirely automated, but this is one of the manual steps I have to do.
      - JorgeGT 8y ago
        As far as I know, it used to be just a matter of writing the plaintext license into the appropriate file: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/license-installation-silently/13749 https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/license-installation-silentl...
        mstade 8y ago
        Awesome – thanks for sharing!
        jskinner 8y ago
        That's still supported, and the same technique works for Sublime Merge, fwiw.
      - skywal_l 8y ago
        Completely off topic but would you care to describe how you install your system automatically?
        ReverseCold 8y ago
        Sounds like NixOS: https://nixos.org/ https://nixos.org/
        mstade 8y ago
        It's really nothing fancy, just based on strap[1] but then modified a bit. I keep my dotfiles in github and leverage homebrew for installing pretty much everything. [1]: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap
- leevlad 8y ago
  After years of clicking cancel as a student, I was more than happy to shell out the full amount for a license after my first paycheck. Don't think I would've stuck around if the free versoin was gimped in any way.
hbosch 8y ago
I haven't used it in a while, but wasn't this also the main differentiator between Unity and Unity Pro (or whatever the paid version was called)? It was an excellent motivator. :)

skrebbel 8y ago

Also I think they learned a lesson from how many people simply grew a habit to click "cancel" in the "please buy this" reminder in Sublime Text.

polyvisual 8y ago
I'm so lazy and it's too easy to click "Cancel"... I have a license but a year after re-installing ST I still haven't added it :/
- badpun 8y ago
  Just search your inbox for "sublime license", and copy the license into Sublime. The whole operation takes me below 1 minute on a new machine.
  - mstade 8y ago
    It'd be nice if there was a command line option for this actually. I have my machine setup almost entirely automated, but this is one of the manual steps I have to do.
    - JorgeGT 8y ago
      As far as I know, it used to be just a matter of writing the plaintext license into the appropriate file: https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/license-installation-silently/13749 https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/license-installation-silentl...
      - mstade 8y ago
        Awesome – thanks for sharing!
      - jskinner 8y ago
        That's still supported, and the same technique works for Sublime Merge, fwiw.
    - skywal_l 8y ago
      Completely off topic but would you care to describe how you install your system automatically?
      - ReverseCold 8y ago
        Sounds like NixOS: https://nixos.org/ https://nixos.org/
      - mstade 8y ago
        It's really nothing fancy, just based on strap[1] but then modified a bit. I keep my dotfiles in github and leverage homebrew for installing pretty much everything. [1]: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap
leevlad 8y ago
After years of clicking cancel as a student, I was more than happy to shell out the full amount for a license after my first paycheck. Don't think I would've stuck around if the free versoin was gimped in any way.

hbosch 8y ago

I haven't used it in a while, but wasn't this also the main differentiator between Unity and Unity Pro (or whatever the paid version was called)? It was an excellent motivator. :)