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https://affinity.serif.com is quite good. It's not the same, but I switched (95% personal use) when Adobe forced everyone onto subscriptions and it's been more than sufficient for that.

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It is surprisingly good, it still lacks many features but it's a welcome competition in the field. However, I wouldn't go through the trouble of leaving Adobe for another closed source suite. The underdogs are always the good guys until they aren't.

If/when I ditch Adobe, it will be for an open source stack.

I concur on Affinity. For graphic design, pixel art, layout, and photo work I've switched to the Affinity suite.

I used Premiere for about two years but never liked it as much as Final Cut Pro X, so I'm back on FCPX for video now that I've got a better Mac to run it on.

FCPX and Affinity are both one-time purchases, which I appreciate.

I read that they were acquired by Canva. Does that create any risk of their pricing changing to a subscription model or maybe a risk of them adopting the same terms as Adobe?

Link for the curious: https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/affinity/

Even before the Canva acquisition, their decision to release a separately-purchased "v2" of their suite ruffled a lot of feathers. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_Photo#Version_2

Seconded. The whole affinity suite is really nice and feels pretty comfy.

It is also reasonably priced and no subscription.

Would definitely buy if they either had a Linux version, or ran in WINE.

Aren’t they also going the subscription way soon?

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