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Apologies for being the bearer of bad news. "6 hours ago" means roughly 6-7pm Eastern on April 30, 2025. I have no further information; I only know because I was going to visit the wiki and . . . apparently now I'm not.

It's under "Guides & Search Engines" in the Software section of the megathread, should anyone with rights care to update.

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[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Im not even sure what this sub is for?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 2 days ago (3 children)

From search : GenP is a tool that allows you to medicine Adobe apps on Windows 10 and 11

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 93 points 2 days ago (1 children)

to medicine > to crack

You'd download legit trial versions of adobe shit and use GenP to disable the trial and call home functionalities. Brilliant bit of kit before I moved to Linux.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I run photoshop in wine just fine ;)

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What version do you run?👀👀

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

CC 2021 (I know the URL says 22, but it provides both options and 22 allegedly is less stable)

https://github.com/LinSoftWin/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Did you know that google paid wine to make cs2 run properly?

Google later paid for improvements to Wine's support for Adobe Photoshop CS2.[27] Wine is also a regular beneficiary of Google's Summer of Code program.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah odd but on GitHub there is mention of pill 💊, either loss in translation or lingo https://github.com/wangzhenjjcn/AdobeGenp/releases

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 43 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's just an euphemism, "DRM / License check" = "disease".

[–] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So to medicine is like to download lots of Linux ISOs, sometimes.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

I also love to legally torrent my favourite open source software legally.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Imagine using Adobe. Being bled dry.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use a really good, free alternative to photoshop and indesign.

They're called pirated photoshop and pirated indesign.

[–] SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Photopea! Browser based and almost as good.

Though I am not a professional.

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine ~~using~~ paying Adobe. Being bled dry.

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Using it at all, even pirated, means becoming contaminated on some level with Adobe paradigms and makes more people more likely to eventually hand Adobe more money because "it's what I'm used to".

At least pirate something that isn't so disgusting, like Affinity, if you simply must use corpo software.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or, you know, "stay hungry" and keep learning new UI & methods to achieve your target results. Not everyone's a spoonfed moron, but I do agree with your pointing out that Adobe is merely following suit in the age-old "first time's free" routine.

For reasons that should be crystal clear at this point to anyone with half a brain, Crapple "gave" millions of their candy-colored shitboxes to schools around the country throughout the 90s, and look at 'em now. 🤮

Don't shame the consumer, fellow citizen. You're just as much profit fodder as the rest of us.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, every time I use a program for free, it really makes me think “man, if only I could shell out over $100 a year for this”. Such a problem I have.