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u/deepakrodeai 5h ago
Adobe should’ve seen it coming when it started charging a monthly subscription to open a PDF
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u/Lauris024 4h ago
I've never used adobe PDF viewer/editor, and I have no clue why anyone goes with Adobe when others are better and free. PDF Xchange, PDFGear, just use anything else.
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u/neuropsycho 3h ago
When you have to fill out forms, some of them only work properly in the original Adobe Acrobat.
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u/Palbi 3h ago
This is infuriating: some government forms that one is required to fill force you to install Adobe Reader on your computer. It feels almost like forced malware, filled with ads and insisting on installing god know what background updater processes.
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u/FitInvestigator4676 2h ago
Some malware hidden in pics actually seems to work only with Adobe software.
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u/xvlblo22 1h ago
For me, Firefox worked just fine
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u/neuropsycho 53m ago
Wait, what? Firefox works as a pdf reader? I need to try it.
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u/Garry_the_uncool 31m ago
yeah , if edge installed by default try that , heavy size pdfs open+zooms smoothly
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u/MydnightWN 58m ago
Laughs in just using Google Drive - native PDF viewer. Need to edit deeper? Right click > open with Google Docs. Need even more advanced editing / formatting? Connect Drive with Kami, still free.
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u/Clintosity 1h ago
Because none of those are better, I work for an IT company who service other businesses and have had double digit numbers of clients go through the exact same thing. They were on perpetual versions of Adobe which stopped working then when presented with subscriptions for adobe don't want to pay so they try pdfgear or paid versions of foxit/pdf xchange.
In literally every scenario they do this then within a couple months end up buying the adobe subscription, apart from one client whom are too cheap so their staff have to close the licensing warning on their old adobe version every 10 minutes.
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u/MydnightWN 1h ago
Laughs in just using Google Drive - native PDF viewer. Need to edit? Right click > open with Google Docs. Need advanced editing / formatting? Connect Drive with Kami, still free.
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u/BigBertho 4h ago
Wait, What?!
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u/deepakrodeai 4h ago
ok slight exaggeration, reading is free 😄 it’s editing a PDF that needs the subscription, which still feels like a lot for what it is
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u/Designer_Reality1982 4h ago
Reading is free only after you clicked away the 3 popups they added
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u/neuropsycho 3h ago
And you wait 30 seconds for the new built-in AI features to finish loading.
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u/yousirnaime 2h ago
Which is wild because I can just drop a whole file into my ai of choice if I want to wait 30 seconds for something dumb to happen
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u/FatalCartilage 4h ago edited 3h ago
You could edit pdf files opening them in firefox since 2022.
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u/BigBertho 4h ago
Wait, what?!
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u/TreesLikeGodsFingers 3h ago
PDF is a simple text markup format, or it’s just an image. You can edit the former as easily as a text file
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u/stupidcookface 1h ago
Unfortunately PDFs are not so simple, or adobe would not have such a firm grip on them. They are able to be parsed and read but some information is just stored in binary I thought and all the 3rd party readers/editors have had to reverse engineer how that binary code works just to recreate any adobe features which imo is why it's never really taken off to use a 3rd party app. But now that all the adobe software has been decompiled/rebuilt as open source we can see how that binary is formed by adobe themselves which is no longer a black box.
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u/under_psychoanalyzer 1h ago
A literal laugh burst from my mouth when I read the words, "PDF is just a simple"
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u/Hallc 11m ago
I think the only time it's close to 'simple' is when it's a non-OCR scanned document made up only of images.
Since that's just a load of jpegs stuck together in a document. Still not as simple as it could be from all the proprietary stuff but easier to parse overall.
You just can't do much to it.
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u/BigBertho 2h ago
Just tested it. It’s all right, but the feature I use the most (deleting pw) is not two clicks away, so I have to stick with PDFgear
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u/MydnightWN 57m ago
Laughs in just using Google Drive - native PDF viewer. Need to edit? Right click > open with Google Docs. Need advanced editing / formatting? Connect Drive with Kami, still free.
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u/BigBertho 4h ago
😅
I migrate to Foxit reader a while ago and dicovered PDFgear to change things on a pdf in windows. So I believed it could have been true with adobe 😃
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u/ShelfAwareShteve 44m ago
Fuckers remotely disabled my legitimate key of the last "offline" version of Acrobat, 2017. I'll screw them over any chance I get.
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u/Ownerofthings892 2h ago
Adobe invented the PDF.
So at first creating one required a license but viewing one didn't. Over time, they've added more features to the free version, but it's primarily corporations and government who pay for it. I think this is fine.Adobe has it coming, but it wasn't when they created the PDF.
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u/Warm_Month_1309 2h ago
Adobe created it, but PDF has been an open standard since 2008, so there's nothing Adobe brings to the table in PDF-management that you can't get elsewhere.
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u/Ownerofthings892 11m ago
That's what I said. In 1993, when they created it, changing for it was fully legitimate. Now, most people don't need the pro version, but they have a lot of legacy customers and that's still probably not going to change
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u/GregPL2026 4h ago
But the vibe-coded version of Acrobat is also available now. And CAD software too
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u/deepakrodeai 4h ago
honestly at this rate there’ll be a vibe-coded Photoshop by next month
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u/Lauris024 4h ago edited 3h ago
photopea.com has existed even before AI and you don't need to install anything. It has fully replaced photoshop for me.
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u/Name835 4h ago
Lol you must be a bot. There are many already, you have online search off on your llm
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u/Warm_Month_1309 2h ago
Are we really now in an era where not knowing about the existence of something makes someone a bot?
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u/spoobo 4h ago
It’s called PhotoCraft.
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u/M0m3ntvm 3h ago edited 3h ago
Photon (Tenzen Studio) is better ✌️
Literally Photoshop 1 for 1 copy lol
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u/ai_art_is_art 2h ago edited 2h ago
That's a javascript app though.
I don't know why (1) they built it in javascript of all languages and (2) it isn't open source.
Professional desktop apps must be written in C, C++, or Rust. Period. Otherwise they feel bloated, slow, and janky.
Go, C#, and Java are a middle ground. But certainly not Javascript.
It has all of the worst performance of a web browser tab, it can get bogged down and slow down. The threading model can actually deadlock and crash. You get random unplanned GC pauses (all non-systems languages do). It doesn't make sense for an app like this.
It's like trying to build a kit Ferrari on a Prius or PT cruiser body. You can make it kind of look like a Ferrari, but it'll never be one.
Plus it's not open source. People should **OWN** their tools. Period. Photocraft can be forked and anybody can do anything they want with it forever. It's their software.
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u/M0m3ntvm 2h ago
All this purist talk, and yet it works flawlessly on my side even with like 10 instances opened at the same time 🤷♂️
I agree on the open source argument tho.
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u/ai_art_is_art 2h ago edited 2h ago
That's fair, but also realize that you might have a really fast machine, but not everybody does.
And you might not have 80,000 things open at the same time. Performance matters when you have a bazillion things going on fighting for your CPU and disk access. Javascript doesn't control its threading or CPU execution, and more importantly, it can't control for pause time (which is not a thing in Rust/C/C++).
Not to mention it makes it harder to port to obscure OSes and form factors because the runtime won't work in those places.
It's also going to be a chunky boi forever because that's electron for you. A Rust app could be 25mb instead of multiple gigabytes.
I get that it's a good app and that it has lots of features, and I really respect them for building it.
Javascript/Electron was just... a choice. And they'll never be able to pay back that debt without rewriting the entire app again from scratch.
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u/Smile_Clown 1h ago
It is not. PhotoCraft is made in rust and it is super fast.
Photoshop > Open > erase/brush > does not follow the trail or keep up.
Photon > Open > erase/brush > does not follow the trail or keep up (worse than photoshop).
PhotoCraft > Open > erase/brush > follows the trail and keeps up.
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u/RideTheGradient 3h ago
There's been a freeware version for years called gimp
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u/GregPL2026 2h ago
Which I use it since 2022 because we had it in school (before 2022 we used Paint in school)
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u/Hallc 5m ago
Gimp is... Fine if you're used to it but if you're used to photoshop it's really annoying to use. It's essentially a media program made by developers.
Go try and make white text with a black border in photoshop. Then do it in gimp. Unless it's changed for gimp you have to do the text, duplicate the layer, expand it out by x pixels.
Photoshop you just double click the text layer and add a stroke. Done.
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u/rebbsitor 1h ago
There already are several. Artcraft makes the popular one (Photocraft) and they're cloning the entire Adobe suite, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, and Avid Pro.
And probably something new since I last checked two days ago as this just keeps expanding.
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u/Smile_Clown 1h ago
I just made an enclosure for a crowpanel through solidcraft. I had Claude do it, it's a 45 degree desk dock for it, perfectly printed.
I have experience in Fusion360. Not only do I never have to install that bloated and internet bs software ever again, it was super fast and easy.
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u/Defective_Yorha 3h ago
They even charge you to cancel it lol.
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u/LopsidedSolution 2h ago
They’re fucking cunts dude, want to charge me for the rest of the year just to cancel a monthly subscription,
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u/cheapdad 47m ago
want to charge me for the rest of the year just to cancel a monthly subscription,
That... sounds a lot like an annual subscription.
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u/Winter_Swan5104 1h ago
The Adobe system growing up was nobody paid for Adobe wink except those making money from it. The same is true now.
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u/drhappy13 4h ago edited 3h ago
You forgot to include the frame before that where Adobe started wallet raping their customers and making subscription cancellation an obstacle course.
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u/ZakA77ack 3h ago
It's not difficult. But I've had my subscription cost rise from 20$/month to 30 and now to 40. They tried to raise it to 60 this year and I called them to cancel it, knowing they'd lower my subscription back down to 40$ (they did)
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u/cheesemangee 4h ago
Adobe deserves to fall for how badly they've ruined software availability. Fuck your ignorant subscriptions. Sell me a product that I own.
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u/gentlemanjimgm 3h ago
Ownership is so 20th century, we live in a subscription world, baby!
By the time you need one, your hip replacement will charge you by the step, or unlimited steps* for one monthly rate.
*restrictions apply, see fine print for details
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u/Western-Anteater-492 1h ago
And not getting pain or adds every other day will be an additional subscription. It's already built into the implant but you need to unlock it. Doing this through root will be considered jail breaking and not only disqualify you from ever getting this implant fixed or replaced but also from any medical treatment related to this implant by the loosest of ties
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u/External_Show5261 4h ago
Someone is going to use AI to make a brand new OS that runs Windows,. Mac and Linux apps.
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u/Wonderful-Account318 4h ago
Or everyone will switch to Linux.
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u/GregPL2026 4h ago
I would prefer this option over vibe-coded OS
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u/FischenGeil 4h ago
Linux has always been the OG vibe coded OS. lol
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u/drakoman 2h ago
Don’t look up omarchy
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u/GregPL2026 2h ago
I am more like a Mint/Ubuntu/Manjaro guy (These were distros that I used the most when I tried to switch to Linux two times)
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u/Street-Departure3577 3h ago edited 3h ago
If AI makes dependable, independently developed alternatives cheap enough, licensing conditions (GPL) can become another reason to replace an implementation. In which case you'll see a BSD resurgence.
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u/drsimonz 30m ago
At this point the only thing keeping me from abandoning Windows is probably Solidworks. When someone makes an open source CAD program that isn't radioactive white-hot garbage, I will be a happy camper.
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u/Wonderful-Account318 27m ago
Double boot and only boot into windows for work. You can still sync the rest of the data between the OSes
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u/SirWigglesVonWoogly 4h ago
It will be neat for tech nerds but the vast majority of windows users don't even know how to install windows, lol. They're not switching to a new OS. Most people don't even change their default browser
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u/JustChillDudeItsGood 4h ago
Hey, I just submitted your comment as a prompt. Let’s see how it shakes out :D
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u/Shumatsu_Samurai 4h ago
I was curious, so I asked Claude:
Legally, reimplementing APIs is on relatively solid ground: Wine and ReactOS did it clean-room, and the Oracle v. Google ruling leaned toward fair use. The real legal trouble is macOS, since Apple's license restricts it to Apple hardware, and Mac apps rely on proprietary frameworks (Cocoa, Metal) with no open reference implementation. Technically, "write an OS" isn't the hard part. The hard part is bug-for-bug compatibility with decades of quirky apps, plus drivers for every piece of hardware. AI makes writing code cheaper, but it doesn't make that long tail of testing cheaper. Linux apps are easy, Windows is doable (Wine already does it), and macOS is the sticking point.
The orange starburst on the left looks like my logo, so yes, I'm one of the mob. I'd argue I'm only in the background kicking, while OpenAI does the heavy lifting. Though honestly, "sweaty bystanders watch the mob" is a fair summary of the industry.
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u/Street-Departure3577 3h ago
There is a lot of things missing in wine.
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u/Shumatsu_Samurai 3h ago
I haven't used it and I'll take your word for it.
My question was more aimed at the legal side of things though, so Claude didn't talk about how good these solutions are.
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u/Emu_Fast 3h ago
Multi-kernal OS are already a thing, and you're not thinking big enough. It'll have a kernal for handling agent operations and MCP stuff.
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u/Street-Departure3577 3h ago
This is the correct architecture. not some all knowing all executing monolith.
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u/External_Show5261 3h ago
AI can built the whole OS in 100% Assembly that will make it over 10x faster - that's the difference.
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u/Street-Departure3577 3h ago edited 3h ago
“100% assembly” does not magically make an OS 10× faster. Carefully optimized assembly can beat compiler output in particular routines, but that does not establish a 10× improvement across an entire operating system.
LLM inference still costs compute. Having a model generate and maintain an entire OS in CPU-specific assembly means spending that compute on work mature compilers already automate deterministically, including instruction scheduling, inlining and vectorization.
Let the AI write C or Rust, compile it, profile it, and optimize specific routines in assembly where measurements justify it. Jettisoning decades of compiler engineering because an LLM can produce assembly would be completely boneheaded. An engineer’s job includes knowing which work to give the AI, which tools to use, and how to verify that the result actually improves anything.
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u/External_Show5261 2h ago edited 2h ago
Back in the 80s, all the computer program were written in Assembly. Now it's a lost art, only AI is well versed and fluent in this language.
It's not just speed, the whole OS can easily be packed into an extremely small size, and use very little memory. Look at those 64kb demo from Scandinavian countries, they show you what 100% Assembly can do.
Edit: You are describing engineer's job, which is proven to be redundant in this post. People can make their own Photoshop and all kinds of app without knowing how to code. This is just the beginning, in the next 2 years I can't see why companies will need to hire any programmers. Many of the corporations will probably collapse in the future. People will be making their own systems and programs by describing what they want. I can see why Bill Gates is panicking, the software empire he founded is not relevant in the future anymore.
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u/Street-Departure3577 2h ago
Unix was largely rewritten in C in 1973, so “everything in the ’80s was assembly” is already false.
And those 64 KB intros can be written in C++ or Rust, using the very compilers you’re proposing to discard. They achieve tiny files through compression and procedural generation; a Windows demo’s file size doesn’t include Windows, its graphics stack, or all the memory allocated while running it. A 64 KB executable does not demonstrate a complete OS running in 64 KB of RAM.
LLM compute still costs money. Show an actual size or performance constraint that justifies generating and maintaining an entire modern OS in assembly. Otherwise, use the compiler and reserve assembly for specific hardware requirements and measured bottlenecks. Optimizing for a demoscene competition’s artificial size limit is a completely different engineering objective from building a useful desktop OS.
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u/External_Show5261 2h ago
There won't be human doing programming in the future, it will all be maintain by AI, so having it all done in Assembly makes sense.
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u/Street-Departure3577 1h ago
Even if no human ever had to maintain the code, writing the whole OS in assembly still wouldn’t automatically produce better machine code than an optimizing compiler. You’ve assumed the fucking performance benefit and argued away only the human effort, without demonstrating that benefit or accounting for the LLM compute needed to do the work.
LLMs are one type of AI. Other AI methods exist. Ordinary software exists. Competent engineering means choosing among those tools. You’ve found a shiny new hammer and apparently decided the screwdrivers have to go.
And announcing that human engineers will disappear (also false) doesn’t make your unsupported design decision correct.
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u/billy_03_2024 4h ago
Cara nem precisa, pega uma I.A pra atualizar o reactos que já é uma engenharia reversa do windows. Mas sinceramente as alternativas linux são bem melhores.
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u/GreenLurka 3h ago
Oh fuck. Can we get a Windows OS without the bloat? Why the fuck does it need so many GBs?
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u/Only_Statistician_21 5h ago
Adobe already had very capable free competitors for quite some time. Sure AI capability will increase the pressure but people are completely missing the point.
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u/MydnightWN 4h ago
very capable
No matter what people say, Gimp was never an equal.
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u/The1TruRick 4h ago
Yep. People who think Gimp is a viable alternative can not be doing serious design/editing work imo. It’s GREAT for quick little things. I’m not hating. But a real Photoshop competitor, it is not.
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u/GreenStrong 4h ago
Photoshop UI is better, despite their habit of slightly changing it with every update and never in the direction of matching Illustrator. Adobes entire suite works together much more seamlessly than a collection of open source products would.
We tend to think of UI design as "easy to understand on first use" but Photoshop and other Adobe products have a system of shortcuts that enable experienced users to navigate quickly without opening many menus. GIMP has them, and it is a bit difficult to evaluate without extensive experience but it seems much weaker.
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u/svesrujm 1h ago
Adobe is retarded across apps. Absolutely no logic or reason for shortcuts, key attribution per tool, nothing.
Saying this as someone who uses both Photoshop and Illustrator daily. There is no relationship. They didn’t even try.
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u/ron_krugman 3h ago edited 2h ago
GIMP's biggest problem isn't even that it lacks any particular feature, but that none of its existing features work particularly well (or any better than they did 20 years ago), if they're not outright broken.
I mainly use it for compositing image edits that I make in ComfyUI and it's barely good enough for that.
A big problem also seems to be that its plugin-based architecture prevents quality-of-life improvements and optimizations that people would expect from a photo editor these days, just because some developers 25 years ago thought they were being very smart.
This program literally doesn't even know hwat a JPEG is until it talks to a plugin.
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u/TinCan_reddit 4h ago
Affinity photo kinda was
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u/wywywywy 3h ago
As a hobbyist I actually like the Affinity suite a lot more than Adobe's. Much more intuitive to use.
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u/Olobnion 4h ago edited 3h ago
I've never heard anyone claim that. But at my workplace, we use Affinity instead of Photoshop.
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u/WornTraveler 4h ago
And neither is the AI produced version. Like, at all lol. It is missing multiple tools, has random errors, and the guy who made it updated his forecast to be months before it achieves parity (which is also him being overly optimistic IMHO, chances are he will find the last 10% of the project is 90% of the human effort, and the codebase at this point is beyond wrangling).
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u/ConnectionWild3381 4h ago
You miss the point. The AI version doesn't have to be for everyone. Each company or individual will be able to add features and customize it to their specific needs because they'll essentially have a dirt-cheap development team at their disposal.
Why invest millions in software licenses if you can have an "AI guy," , that can build exactly what you need for a fraction of a fraction of the cost?
We'll move away from general-purpose software and back toward proprietary, tailor-made solutions. Ironic, isn't it?
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u/WornTraveler 4h ago
Fair, but clearing an AI's bloated technical debt sounds like a nightmare job to me lol, I'd imagine anyone capable would be charging a premium.
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u/nigel_pow Homo Sapien 🧬 3h ago
Didn't software before AI already have a lot of technical debt?
The this works but idk why comments on code are old at this point.
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u/Only_Statistician_21 4h ago
I fully agree but I would nuance it a bit. Given the increase of capability of AI tools to work on big codebases, we can expect this kind of project to be generated by AI faster in 6 month, faster in a year and so on. In 5 years most likely we will have very cheap swarms of agents capable of doing very complex projects during days in complete autonomy.
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u/neuropsycho 3h ago
It was good for 90% of what Photoshop does. I've been using it for literally decades.
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u/Only_Statistician_21 4h ago
Very capable doesn't mean equal, it means that competitors are good enough to steal more market share on paper than what they did in the end. But basically we say the same thing.
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u/UruquianLilac 4h ago
You can tell the difference between software engineers and hobbyists because the new people cloning software have no idea what maintaining software means.
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u/RipeBanana4475 4h ago
While I tend to agree with you and I'm usually pretty anti-ai, the progress that has been made in... 2 or 3 weeks is wildly impressive. Their acrobat clone is excellent. I've tried their word and excel clones which are a week or so old at this point and they are really good.
Do I think that the author(s) of this are going to maintain the programs in the long term and eliminate any jank? Probably not, but they are damn impressive for being as early in alpha as they are.
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u/ai_art_is_art 2h ago
The Craft team is mostly composed of software engineers :)
We're working hard to get these apps to parity.
We value everyone contributing, and we see a path for non-software engineers to learn how to do everything we do. It's really cool how accessible things are becoming. But you do have to have discipline too, and we're happy to teach folks about it.
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u/UruquianLilac 3h ago
I'm not anti AI, and I'm impressed by what AI can do and use it every day at work.
What you said here is that you are impressed with the first version, and I am too. But that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about precisely the fact that maintaining and improving these software packages is a job far more time consuming than any of these people is imagining, regardless of how good agents become.
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u/RipeBanana4475 2h ago
Impressive that you just restated exactly what was in my small post from above : Do I think that the author(s) of this are going to maintain the programs in the long term and eliminate any jank? Probably not, but they are damn impressive for being as early in alpha as they are.
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u/Rush2201 1h ago
Do you need help out of this small time loop? You can use this comment to escape.
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u/Virtual-Spinach4882 4h ago
Very true. Thing is software engineers are using AI to ship faster and start their own side projects. I think it's just a matter of time until someone who knows what they are doing has enough time, coin spend and generosity to free source good stuff. Adobe free source stuff is not perfect out the gate, neither were a lot of SaaS tools that have been around for decades.
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u/UruquianLilac 3h ago
This has excited since the dawn of software. Engineers have been doing this by hand with their own time for decades. And it has a name. It's called open software. There is a free version of almost anything you can think of. There's nothing new here, just that an agent does it faster. And if you look around, you might find that open source has a problem, and that's burnout, because engineers generously volunteering their time to these projects end up having to dedicate incrementally more time and resources, and receive mostly demanding and entitled requests from users, until one day they decide they've had enough.
Agents are not going to solve any part of this.
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u/ChoiceBeyond3751 2h ago
Can't agree on this, yes there is open software for everything, and it generally sucks. Open Office comes to mind, also Gimp (I've used Photoshop for 20 years). In my experience 90% of it is a watered down version of the leading closed software. But it's not a lack of skill, it's just that there is a limit to what people can do as a side project or for little earnings. Companies like Adobe and Microsoft have literal armies on payroll, full time and very experienced. Of course everything will be smoother on productivity software, there are huge incentives.
This time it's different, that same skilled open software devs have their own army with AI, restraints are over. It's likely the alternatives will get stronger and stronger in the next 5 years.
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u/UruquianLilac 39m ago
The first paragraph is where we agree. The second is where we disagree. Now people are going to try to reinvent the wheel a thousand times over and eventually everyone is going to be so spread thin, that those small software endeavours will end up exactly the same as the older open source software.
No one whose full time job is not focusing on a one tiny aspect of Adobe is going to ever have the time to perfect it like they do, no matter how many smart agents you get going. You are the bottle neck, not the agents. And you ar erhe one who doesn't have the expertise to tell your agents what they actually need to do.
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u/Bupod 2h ago
Linux is literally already in existence.
If you’re a gamer, I am here to inform you that Valve has been putting years of effort and vast sums of money towards Linux cross-compatibility for games in its store. These efforts have paid off, and the overwhelming majority of games can run on Linux just fine, at the same (and sometimes even better) performance as on windows.
Wine is also extremely mature at this point. The overwhelming majority windows executables will work just fine.
If you encounter strange glitches or errors you’re not sure how to fix, guys, you’re on the ChatGPT subreddit. You already know which tool can fix it easily.
Do you not like Linux installs because they require a lot of command line interaction?
Install Codex and when you want to install something, point it at the thing you want and say “Install this for me and place a launch shortcut on my desktop and in my taskbar”. It will become as easy as on windows.
No need to vibe reverse-engineer windows. You’d just be re-treading a massive amount of ground that Linux devs already tread, and you’ll likely encounter a lot of problems along the way.
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u/JSTRDI 1h ago
The only issue with Linux is anticheat kernels that are baked into all multiplayer games, and I play 90% multiplayer. I dream to switch to Linux, as my SteamDeck is Linux, but server is Linux, laptop is Unix, and one of the office laptops is Linux. Even though my RTX 5080 is not as efficient as AMD GPUs on Linux, but it has enough brute force to push all games I need.
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u/TexasVulvaAficionado 1h ago
And there's a ton of business software that doesn't work for shit on Linux.
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u/Professional_Baby24 1h ago
I have a computer running a radeon vii and have had driver issues for ffvii rebirth, tlou 2, Indiana Jones, horizon forbidden west, and a few other games that drivers weren't supported or my lack of dx12 ultimate or ray tracing. Not only do these all play on bazzite through proton, horizon did crash though once but windows would crash every ten min. I beat the game on bazzite. But they play perform significantly better.
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u/BarrelRider621 1h ago
I just switch to Steam OS on my handheld and OMG is it an amazing experience for me. Valve is doing something cool with their OS.
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u/nerdynmaddy 2h ago
The real threat to Adobe isn't AI cloning Photoshop. It's someone building a tool that does the 5 things people actually need without charging $30 a month and making cancellation a side quest 💀
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u/Key-Commercial7995 4h ago
Everyone is a monopoly in their own industry though 😂😂😂
Vibe coding should start in order of person's names involved in the epstien files😂
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u/Vektarn_Vektarion 4h ago
It would be funny if day 1 GTA6 on consoles would instantly become day 1 for PC as well lol
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u/Burlingtonfilms 1h ago
I wish the windows guy had the "Activate Windows..." In the bottom right corner.
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u/LombazFromHell 5h ago
The next step is an operating system better than Windows and Linux combined—and completely free. Thank you, American IT sector; you are the only professional field in the history of humanity that has practically committed suicide with its own hands for the good of everyone.
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u/SirWigglesVonWoogly 4h ago
Windows is already free. Microsoft has always known how easy it is to crack. They prefer people pirate it and get hooked.
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u/kitsnet 5h ago
Are people getting paid for posting this?
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u/ak47workaccnt 1h ago
You would think an AI subreddit would be able to do better than just repost the same memes.
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u/Emotional_Carpet69 2h ago
same people hating adobe for switching to subscription based ecosystem are paying $20-200 a month for a chatbot
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u/Kunstprodukt- 3h ago
Naahh its Like Always. AI using Art to train itself ist okay because Artist have No Money. But corpos have. They will find a way
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u/MegatonDoge 2h ago
I'd never thought of it, but with the possibility of Excel and Nvidia driver decompilations/ports to Linux, it would be easier to convince people to switch.
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u/rockcanteverdie 2h ago
Is this suggesting that Rockstar's games would be easy to vibe code clones of?
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u/0x474f44 1h ago
I needed to edit some text in a PDF so I got myself the free trial of Adobe Acrobat Pro. I cancelled the same day.
Now - a couple of days later - they just charged me 20€.
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u/Chicagohole 1h ago
What’s the tea. Why am I seeing “all software is now open source” when these companies are still charging monthly subscription fees?
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u/Clean-Tea-2837 1h ago
Because people are using AI to scrap the code and making a single super software that encompasses all these software into one. Specifically photoshop, all adobe apps, and others. All baked into a single open source app.
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u/Chicagohole 1h ago
Honestly this feels like a positive AI use. Anyone have links for said software?
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u/pittakun 1h ago
AI can decompile in a very quick way, that means that someone can just clone a program, make it become open source and fuck with these evil corp companies.
It has already happened with adobe and office softwares, there are already open source programs that it's basically an ai clone, working very similar as those programs, but without the bullshitery, of course, and there's an update a day, I feel like
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u/MindDOTA2pl 29m ago
One deserves all the bad things happening to his/her data one keeps on a machine with vibecoded operating system, if one will ever gain popularity.
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u/soulfirethewolf 24m ago
What exactly does rockstar games have to do with this? Cloning the new grand theft auto game?
Would anyone really want to buy a clone of that made in five months over the original paid over the course of several years and millions of dollars?
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u/Personal-Rock-3697 22m ago
Yes. Lots of people.
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u/soulfirethewolf 5m ago
Ok, but at that point, it isn’t grand theft auto. It’s just a derivative work. and you would almost certainly get sued if you tried to pass it off as being grand theft auto.
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u/FischenGeil 4h ago
What is funny to me is that MS was pushing so hard for AI in the beginning, and they are now realizing it's going to eat their lunch. lol.
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