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# ADOBE ALTERNATIVES FOR LINUX

Adobe just announce a new terms of service that say they will scan your content and do whatever they want with it. This privacy AND copyright infringement, along with their new ridiculous licensing subscription has a lot of people looking for alternatives.

Fortunately there are many good alternatives for Linux computers, and most of them are open source.

Here are some of the better alternatives:

- **3DS Max**
    - [Blender](https://www.blender.org/)

- **Acrobat**
    - [Evince](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince) (read)
    - [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/) (power edit 1 page at a time)
    - [LibreOffice Draw](https://www.libreoffice.org/) (create, edit, sign)
    - [LibreOffice Writer](https://www.libreoffice.org/) (create)
    - [Okular](https://okular.kde.org/) (read, annotate, sign)
    - [PDF-Shuffler](https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pdfshuffler/) (merge, arrange, delete)
    - [XReader](https://github.com/linuxmint/xreader) (read) 

- **AdobeXD**
    - [Akira](https://github.com/akiraux/Akira)
    - [Figma](https://www.figma.com/)
    - [Lunacy](https://icons8.com/lunacy)
    - [Pencil](https://pencil.evolus.vn/)
    - [Penpot](https://penpot.app/)

- **After Effects**
    - [BlackMagicDesign Fusion](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/fusion) (Proprietary, not freedom)
    - [HitFilm](https://fxhome.com/product/hitfilm) (Proprietary, not freedom)
    - [Natron](https://natrongithub.github.io/)
    - [Astrofox](https://astrofox.io/) (overlay audio responsive animations)

- **Animate**
    - [Blender](https://www.linuxlinks.com/blender/) (3D Animation)
    - [Friction](https://friction.graphics/)
    - [Glaxnimate](https://glaxnimate.mattbas.org/) (2D Animation)
    - [Synfig](https://www.synfig.org/) (2D Animation)
 
 - **Audiation**
   - [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org/)
   - [Audor](https://ardour.org/)
   - [LMMS](https://lmms.io/)
- **Cinema 4D Alternative**
    - [Blender](https://www.blender.org/)

- **Fresco**
    - [Krita](https://krita.org/en/)

- **Illustrator**
    - [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/)
    - [Krita](https://krita.org/)
    - [sK1](https://sk1project.net/)

- **InDesign**
    - [Lyx](https://www.lyx.org/)
    - [Scribus](https://www.scribus.net/)

- **Lightroom**
    - [Darktable](http://darktable.org/)
    - [Raw Therapee](http://rawtherapee.com/)

- **Paint**
  - [Krita](https://krita.org/en/)
  - [MyPaint](https://mypaint.app/about/) 

- **Photoshop**
    - [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org/)
    - [Krita](https://krita.org/)

- **PremierePro**
    - [Davinci Resolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/) (Proprietary, not freedom)
    - [Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/)
    - [Olive Video](https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/)
    - [OpenShot](https://www.openshot.org/)
    - [Pitivi](https://www.pitivi.org/)
    - [Shotcut](https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/tag/v24.04.28)

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 Is Audacity is safe again to use? 

 Maybe I should swap it out for Tennacity, which was forked from Audacity because if the IP logging spyware. 

 nice job! been using Linux for twenty+ years and haven't heard of some of these. 

 👊💪

I've been using Linux that long as well. It's the only thing I've used for 18 years.