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Seriously. It's losing many weeks of your life to retrain in alternatives to Premiere, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects. If not months.

Not to mention it's often simply not a choice at all, because you have to collaborate with people who only work in those file formats.

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Not to mention there realistically aren’t any alternatives. For what it’s worth, their products are unfortunately still best in class in most categories.

This is my hugest gripe with Linux.

Everything I normally use on Windows can be replaced with the exception of Adobe, and it massively affects any ability to be creative or use something like Ubuntu as a daily driver

That's not entirely true at least for graphic design and video editing.

Photoshop - Affinity Photo / Krita

Premiere - Davinci Resolve

Source: Have worked professionally with both Affinity and Resolve.

after effects is probably more difficult to get away from though.

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