This popped up on my work laptop yesterday. Very annoying.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    78·
    8 months ago

    Adobe is a cancer the second it is installed. Avoid this shitty company if possible, there’s loads of fantastic and better alternatives to their products these days.

    • OR3X@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      26·
      8 months ago

      It’s a work laptop. My personal stuff is running FOSS.

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Is there an actual decent alternative that does digital signatures with CACs that doesn’t also require a costly subscription?

    • haulyard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Have a recommendation for replacing Lightroom? Having a hard time finding an good alternative photo catalog mgmt solution.

      • foofiepie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        Replying in the hope you get a solid answer to this. I need a good photo workflow tool and would like it to be FOSS.

      • warm@kbin.earth
        2·
        8 months ago

        Not really my kind of thing, so I don’t. While adobe is a pile of shit, they do admittedly have some good software under all the extra shit piled on top and their suite is a lot larger than I remember these days!

    • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      But also, we need an illegalist project to steal adobe’ssource code and release it to the world for free.

      Fuck remote hackers, we need infiltrators.

      • Lemmy@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I want someone to release the source code to ChatGPT, Sora, and everything else.

        • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Know anybody with a good tech résumé and better politics?

          Don’t, um, tell me. But that’s the starting point. I’d say that or forgery, but those are most of the same skills you’d use to actually get the thing, so…

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Thing is with those models, it’s not just the source code you’d need to do what they do. You’d also either need the model weights or to train them on a massive amount of data.

  • KillerTofu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    8 months ago

    I have to have adobe installed on my work computer and fuck it’s intrusive everythingness. Fuck em.

    • Granixo@feddit.clEnglish
      224·
      8 months ago

      Nobody needs Adobe’s PDF Reader or Creative Tools anymore.

      There are alternatives all over the web.

      Update: I meant for personal use. I know that workplaces force us to use the same tools (and same versions of said tools) that they use.

        • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          8 months ago

          Right, or unless you work in an industry where photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premiere, or after effects are the standard. There’s plenty of great software out there, but good luck opening a complex photoshop document in anything but photoshop, or a complex premiere pro project in anything but premiere. It sucks to be chained to their products, but it’s naive to say “nobody needs them, just switch”

      • KillerTofu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 months ago

        Sure, I don’t use it on my personal devices but I can’t install the better tools on my work computer.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        94·
        8 months ago

        Also not an issue when you disable this in windows.

        How do you like having to opt out of everything, repeatedly?

        • hightrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          8 months ago

          I wouldn’t know how that feels. Did it once and haven’t had an issue since.

          I think some people here like to shit on windows just to shit on windows and haven’t actually used win11

          • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            32·
            8 months ago

            I’ve used Windows 11 a lot

            I’ve made all the changes

            Ultimately, switching to Linux is what it took to get rid of the garbage, and didn’t have to disable anything on the new system.

            Can we not defend this bullshit, please? Or dismiss it as not that bad? It’s bad. Really bad. Stop pretending it’s okay because you can go through a dozen settings, half a dozen registry hacks, and a handful of third party programs to make the system work almost as well as it did a decade ago.

          • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Maybe I’ll get a better response to my question here, since you seem to view windows 11 positively and have a positive vote score, so others who are seeing these comments might feel the same.

            Are there any reasons other than the sunsetting of win 10 or the relative newness of 11 to want to use Windows 11?

            The only thing that stood out in the other thread where I asked this was support for multiple virtual desktops.

            • hightrix@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              8 months ago

              Unfortunately, I don’t have a good answer for you.

              I built a new Pc last year and decided to put win11 on it to judge the OS for myself. In all reality, it doesn’t feel much different than win10. Boot up is fast, startup is fast, everything just works.

              Sorry I can’t provide more info.

            • dotMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              I mean might as well use the latest version. HDR improvements and the nicer UI are things I like about 11 over 10.

    • loxdogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      8 months ago

      Not an issue if you use an OS that values your freedom of choice

      edit: typo

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 months ago

    There’s a reason I have my windows configured for do not disturb/focus mode, I can’t say I’ve seen a notification come through that was actually relevant for me. The vast majority of what I’ve seen come through notifications are app spam, and I ain’t got time for that

    • OR3X@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      15·
      8 months ago

      Agreed. Seems the notification tray in Windows is just a catch-all for spam (mostly from MS themselves)

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        8 months ago

        Nah, browsers are so much worse, but that’s because most users blindly accept notifications from any sketch website then call and cry to IT because they “got a virus”.

        I don’t miss my days supporting end users…

        • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
          7·
          8 months ago

          We configured an allowlist of domains allowed to send notifications through our GPOs, everything else is blocked to the end-users. It reduced the amount of calls related to “virus alert” for sure.

        • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          First thing I do when I open Firefox or Chrome for the first time is go into settings and disable the ability for websites to request notifications permissions

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      I absolutely hate when Windows will give you a different notification for each email that comes in, then an additional one to tell you “mail has new messages.” Get out of my fucking way!

      • Kelly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        As far as I can tell outlook will call out the title of the first 3 emails in a minute, then if further emails arrive you get the general message.

        Its really just a ‘we are rate limiting our notifications, check your inbox’ message.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    192·
    8 months ago

    The pop-ups on my desktop are the driving force behind me finally looking into Linux.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Between that, the installation of programs like HP smart, copilot, and Dev Home without my consent. OneDrive being trash. Start menu being slow ever since they deployed copilot even with it shut off. All the tricks to get you to run Edge. The list just keeps growing.

      The notifications to get you to change notification settings on a program like Microsoft to-do not being run in a while just take the cake. I’ll run my apps if and when I want to. STFU M$. I pay you for an operating system to run my computer. Not to fight with it constantly.

      • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Linux is easier than windows now. Not because Linux got easier (it did, though not enough), but because windows is just getting so much worse so fucking fast.

        • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          That’s hilariously so true. Have been completely comfortable using Linux as a primary OS, in my case, I decided, “well Windows 10 was pretty johnny on the spot, so maybe I’ll use Windows 11 for a spell.” 10 was mostly usable, then 11 was “hey we have this always-update model of 10 in place, let’s make 11 all about constant dark pattern pushes?” May literally be the last time I use or ever recommend the platform in any capacity.

          Not even talking about how W11 can’t successfully sleep or hibernate on most computers I’ve seen it on. I was in a computer shop helping someone pick out a laptop a while back, local place. They configured all the PC laptops to never sleep because Windows 11 sleep is so buggy. How is it 2024 and Windows is worse at sleep than it was in 2001?

  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    8 months ago

    I don’t touch Adobe software. Not only due to the abusive subscription, but even the pirated versions will install Creative Cloud and a thousand supporting applications that permanently modify your Windows shell, explorer, scheduled tasks and many more system features.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      Dude I did it on my previous pc and it was super aids to fully remove it. Never again, I’m sticking with Foss as much as possible now. Photopea is great as a photoshop alternative for anyone who isn’t a professional.

        • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Last time I used gimp was like 6 years ago so take my opinion with a grain of salt but I do feel Photopea is easier to use.

          I have no idea which one is more powerful but for the average lowly user like myself Photopea has had all I need and then some. It’s also a browser only application which for me is a boon but I can see some people preferring a download instead. I would recommend going on the site and messing around a bit to get a feel, it’s free to use.

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    8 months ago

    get sumatrapdf.

    havent been on windows in a while, but im assuming its still the great lightweight viewer it used to be.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      It is. I have trouble making it the default reader. Stuff still opens in Edge. Not sure what the deal is.

      • Zarlin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Had that issue too, search in Start for “Default Apps”, then scroll to the bottom and click “Choose default application by file type”. Then scroll to .pdf and choose Sumatra. The settings window may crash for some reason, but for me the file association did seem to stick after that.

        • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          I haven’t had a crash happen on that screen but it takes its fucking time loading a non-paginated list of thousands of elements. And there’s no search bar IIRC. MS made this process as painful as possible and I’m convinced that that’s exactly the way they want it.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          I’ll give it a shot and report back. I remember doing it through “Open with … Always” but maybe it’s different.

  • Z4rK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    I can hardly remember the last time any notification was not some kind of spam or self-notification.

    I turn 99.95% of notifications off on any platform. The worst offenders are the apps that will show me a permanent in-app notification that I have turned off notification permissions… especially those that do so blocking the regular UI of the app to tell me this. Even some apps I’ve paid for do this. I condemn those to the deepest pits of app-hell.

    • Mabexer@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      Yep! But sadly I still have to use Adobe when I need to sign documents…

      • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        I straight up tell companies to mail the form to me now.

        All my banking is on paper, insurance, etc…its ALL paper copies. I’m not filtering through 4000 spam emails from companies to find my shit, then deal with subscriptions and other crap just to send things back.

        Send me paper, and I will mail it back. Countless companies just can’t process things anymore, it’s hilarious

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    Just throwing out there that PDF X-Change Editor and WondersShare PDFelement are both exceptional PDF editors. PDF X-Change Editor also has Windows ARM64 builds so you can run them on ARM based PCs. Although the best thing is to try and escape from Windows entirely anymore. Edit: Also, I second other recommends for Sumatra PDF for viewing. It has always been a favorite.