I'm a paranoid IT Manager . . . I'll stick with my single purchase / no subscription Photoshop 7 which *still* works fine on my new Win 11 machine. Been using it for everything I need for over 20 years now I guess.

And any number of other issues including requiring me to be online. My DAW is NEVER online for a number of reasons but primarily because I'm a paranoid IT nerd who sees damage from "free" stuff all the time. My company uses cloud based subscription software and I can't tell you how often any glitch in the internet somewhere has shut us down hard. Sometimes for multiple days.

Why would affinity provide you a software for free?

If something is "free" you pay with your data. And in other ways. Most people would be shocked at what's actually going on under the hood.


Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks. -Waylon Jennings

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