My wife uses it, so fairly recently. But I have no reason to switch since I got the product that does what I need very well and my license is permanent (no subscription). Documents are very compatible too, so there's that.

Okay, but is still on 4, or has she upgraded to 5? :v

I don't think i'm affected by the subscription model trend as I don't need to use any software professionally. I generally prefer free & open source software to do whatever job I need to do and the only paid software I use regularly is REAPER.

Hypothetically, I would be bothered as I don't like the idea of buying a tool that has an expiry date (just the same as with gaming), but then again maybe not that much if my job required to always have the newest version of a specific software.

In my experience... Blender is unpleasant as a video editor. Not much documentation, so unless you already know a lot about how things work you will be in trouble.
For a free video editor, maybe Fusion? I haven't used it personally, but it looks cool.

I think it depends what you want gimp for. If it's just for photo editing GIMP is definitely the way to go. If you want it for digital painting, Krita would be better.

That is true. The base install of Ubuntu Studio includes Krita along with almost all of the FOSS software previously mentioned in this thread.

There are tow sides to the transaction. I may show excessive skepticism or lack of confidence in my own species, but I'm seriously considering that consumers prefer to swim in a water that is slowly put to boil than to be plunged in boiling water. In other words, they get caught by the apparently lower price of subscriptions. that why you wtill find people renting their digital TV terminal and paying 6 € a month for it rather than buying one for about 120€...

Now, on the suppliers side, there are many benefits : streamlining cash flow for instance. . Increasing sales. Making customers less likely to leave ( if you have an old version, you may not buy the new one and just keep the previous one. In a subscription model, if you leave, you lose what you had ) Or being able to repackage the liabilities of their customers in financial products, in effect cashing in advance several years or subscriptions, thus generating more apparent cash, thus justifying juicy bonusses for Management

So, in the end, the question is, as ever : quid bono ?

From my dealings with Adobe over the years I've concluded a few things about them. One is that they think that businesses (the ones who will pay for this subscription) are pretty much the only business they get. Anyone else who gets a copy of Photoshop no matter how legitimately is in the same league as a pirate. The same damn league. That was their mindset before the subscription model. So as far as they're concerned they haven't lost anything and smaller customers are just pirates anyway and pirates gonna pirate, right?

That's what I got directly from them, so fuck knows what sentiments they're keeping to themselves.

Oh yeah as soon as it came out.