When I was still working, I paid for Adobe and Corel Draw. But, since I retired, I don’t need to use them every day like I used to. So, I switched to FOSS versions.
I’ve donated to Blender, GIMP, LibreOffice, and Inkscape, because those are the ones I use the most. But, even at that, I only use them maybe three times a month just for personal stuff now, so I don’t do recurring donations.
I’m grateful that FOSS options exist, especially Linux. Microsoft has gone off the deep end with Win11, and I didn’t want to downgrade from Win10, so now I’m on Linux Mint. Works just fine for me, no complaints. Well, one small complaint, I miss the big file preview in Windows file explorer. Also, I’ll admit that I run Win10 IOT in a virtual machine when I want to run some small app that doesn’t work in WINE, there are only a couple of those.
When I was still working, I paid for Adobe and Corel Draw. But, since I retired, I don’t need to use them every day like I used to. So, I switched to FOSS versions.
I’ve donated to Blender, GIMP, LibreOffice, and Inkscape, because those are the ones I use the most. But, even at that, I only use them maybe three times a month just for personal stuff now, so I don’t do recurring donations.
I’m grateful that FOSS options exist, especially Linux. Microsoft has gone off the deep end with Win11, and I didn’t want to downgrade from Win10, so now I’m on Linux Mint. Works just fine for me, no complaints. Well, one small complaint, I miss the big file preview in Windows file explorer. Also, I’ll admit that I run Win10 IOT in a virtual machine when I want to run some small app that doesn’t work in WINE, there are only a couple of those.