Category: Open Source Reviews

Other peoples software, reviewed by me.

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Adobe’s Stagnation: Pricing, Platform Woes, and the Linux Opportunity

Adobe, once a titan of creative software, has struggled to maintain its innovative edge in recent years. While the company has leaned heavily into AI-driven features to reinvigorate its Creative Cloud suite, this push often overshadows deeper issues: exorbitant pricing, platform limitations, and persistent bugs that erode user trust. The real opportunity for Adobe to restore customer confidence lies in expanding its suite to Linux, a platform that could address privacy concerns, reduce reliance on flawed operating systems, and signal a commitment to user-centric innovation. The AI Distraction and the Pricing Problem Adobe’s recent focus on AI—tools like Firefly and generative features in Photoshop and Premiere Pro—has been marketed as a leap forward. These advancements are impressive but often feel like a distraction from systemic issues. The Creative…
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My Linux Conversion Story

In my teens, I witnessed the tech industry’s shift from DOS to Windows 3.x, which many viewed as a mere shell over DOS. Windows NT was touted as the solution, but my experience with OS/2 Warp after DOS left me unimpressed with Windows. I found Windows lacking in resource management, stability, and practical features like a true object-oriented desktop, which OS/2 offered. As Windows became the dominant platform, I grew disillusioned, seeing it as a symptom of a “drunken marketplace” driven by problem-creation solutions. Much like the medical or military industries, the IT market seemed to thrive on perpetuating issues to sustain demand, at the expense of users’ sanity and systems’ health. This normalization of malfunction left me feeling trapped and depressed. Desperate for an alternative, I watched…
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Making Fax Cool Again: Why Government, Medical, and Legal Fields Still Need the Humble Fax

Folks like me keep faxing cool while others think eFax is some busted website needing eFixing. But let me tell you straight — I can fax a page or two to over 100 numbers in under an hour for less than a dollar. Yeah, I’m bragging. But it’s not for the ego. It’s because facsimile deserves respect. It deserves a comeback. I’m out here trying to make fax cool again. Why? Because when you want just one physical page to make it from one corner of the world to another, and you want it to exist nowhere else but between two machines, faxing stands alone. Beam me up. Faster and cloudier is not always better. Prove me wrong. Faxing in the Fields That Matter Look, anyone can shoot…