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How about those adobe applications? I heard that PS, Pr, or Ai need special patch to run on amd machines

rolleiflex 7y ago
I'm actually a designer, but I stopped using Adobe a very long time ago for unrelated reasons — when they switched to the subscription model. For that reason I didn't even try to run them. I do realise that might be an untenable position for someone in Hollywood since FCPX is not a match for Premiere / After Effects at that level, however, there are plenty of other things that do the job of Photoshop and Illustrator, and they are not alternatives, Sketch is genuinely vastly better than Illustrator, and for Photoshop, there have been quite a few alternatives that the whole class of image manipulation apps got commoditised.
- leemailll 7y ago
  I still will use adobe apps and the main reason is my university offer them for free. But I agree adobe’s subscription is an overkill for personal use
  - rolleiflex 7y ago
    That's Adobe's way of getting you hooked. It was the same for me at my college. It took me a long time to port my muscle memory to Sketch. If I had an advice to give to my college self, I would advise not even starting with Adobe: if you're a designer and use their tools, the tools you need to make money with isn't even available for sale, you can only rent. So you might end up in a place where Adobe jacks up the price of Creative Suite by 10-100x per month after becoming dominant like Oracle, and you would have to pay your dues to their feudal fiefdom just to be able to continue your profession - else you'll starve. Not a great place to be for anyone.
    - dijit 7y ago
      FWIW that’s exactly why Microsoft office and windows is so prolific, it’s what people know from school so it’s not even a conversation on switching. Even if Microsoft is gauging companies with licenses.
      - mrep 7y ago
        And exactly why Google responded with chromebooks and free gsuite for education.
- tambourine_man 7y ago
  Unfortunately, there’s no match for Photoshop for serious image editing.
  - jdietrich 7y ago
    Affinity Photo isn't a match for Photoshop, but it's remarkably close at a fraction of the cost. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
    - unicornfinder 7y ago
      Indeed. I was pretty well versed in Photoshop but switched to Affinity some years ago and I'm genuinely very, very happy with Affinity Photo. I wouldn't switch back even if Photoshop was free.
- Scarbutt 7y ago
  FWIW, I have found Figma to be better than Sketch.
  - alluro2 7y ago
    Same here - jumped the ship a couple of days ago and thoroughly impressed so far. Plugins system is sorrowly missed at some moments, but should be arriving soon from what I understood. Everything else, including performance (I'm amazed by how fast that WebGL through WebASM works) - better.
devbat8712 7y ago
I used to have an amd hackintosh with an a10, and I used premiere pro and Photoshop all the time with no issues.

I'm actually a designer, but I stopped using Adobe a very long time ago for unrelated reasons — when they switched to the subscription model. For that reason I didn't even try to run them. I do realise that might be an untenable position for someone in Hollywood since FCPX is not a match for Premiere / After Effects at that level, however, there are plenty of other things that do the job of Photoshop and Illustrator, and they are not alternatives, Sketch is genuinely vastly better than Illustrator, and for Photoshop, there have been quite a few alternatives that the whole class of image manipulation apps got commoditised.

leemailll 7y ago
I still will use adobe apps and the main reason is my university offer them for free. But I agree adobe’s subscription is an overkill for personal use
- rolleiflex 7y ago
  That's Adobe's way of getting you hooked. It was the same for me at my college. It took me a long time to port my muscle memory to Sketch. If I had an advice to give to my college self, I would advise not even starting with Adobe: if you're a designer and use their tools, the tools you need to make money with isn't even available for sale, you can only rent. So you might end up in a place where Adobe jacks up the price of Creative Suite by 10-100x per month after becoming dominant like Oracle, and you would have to pay your dues to their feudal fiefdom just to be able to continue your profession - else you'll starve. Not a great place to be for anyone.
  - dijit 7y ago
    FWIW that’s exactly why Microsoft office and windows is so prolific, it’s what people know from school so it’s not even a conversation on switching. Even if Microsoft is gauging companies with licenses.
    - mrep 7y ago
      And exactly why Google responded with chromebooks and free gsuite for education.
tambourine_man 7y ago
Unfortunately, there’s no match for Photoshop for serious image editing.
- jdietrich 7y ago
  Affinity Photo isn't a match for Photoshop, but it's remarkably close at a fraction of the cost. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
  - unicornfinder 7y ago
    Indeed. I was pretty well versed in Photoshop but switched to Affinity some years ago and I'm genuinely very, very happy with Affinity Photo. I wouldn't switch back even if Photoshop was free.
Scarbutt 7y ago
FWIW, I have found Figma to be better than Sketch.
- alluro2 7y ago
  Same here - jumped the ship a couple of days ago and thoroughly impressed so far. Plugins system is sorrowly missed at some moments, but should be arriving soon from what I understood. Everything else, including performance (I'm amazed by how fast that WebGL through WebASM works) - better.

devbat8712 7y ago

I used to have an amd hackintosh with an a10, and I used premiere pro and Photoshop all the time with no issues.