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To be fair, Microsoft made progress and the Office for Mac 2016 is more reliable.Īfter a few days without rebooting my computer, Creative cloud won't detect Lightroom and Photoshop installed on my computer until I reboot my Mac. It used to be Microsoft Office but Adobe beat them by far.

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This the software that gets stuck or crashes the most on my Mac (OSX 10.11.5).

If I were younger and not hopelessly trapped in the Photoshop ecosystem, I'd be seriously looking at alternatives like GIMP, Skylum Luminar, or Capture One. If I don't trust Apple's TLS implementation in Safari, I can use a different browser, including an open source browser.

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I want to install a package, scan the installed application for malware, and only then launch it.įinally, I have to log in to Creative Cloud Desktop, meaning I have to trust it to transport my credentials securely. If it contained any malware, the malware has already run. I download once on my schedule and install on my schedule.Ĭreative Cloud Desktop launches automatically after installation or an update. What I really want is just to download three packages (Photoshop, Bridge, Camera Raw), then use the Mac package utility to install them on all my computers. I might have been out in the field, with no Internet access, desperately needing space, and unable to uninstall an old version of Photoshop.Īdware? Every time I launch Creative Cloud Desktop (when there's not a mandatory update), it's telling me about some wonderful new Adobe software or service of absolutely no interest to me. I had to install new software to free up space. I ran Uninstall Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 and Creative Cloud Desktop launched! Of course with a mandatory update. I wanted to uninstall an old version of Photoshop to free up some badly needed space. By then, Photoshop has been updated again and I'm back to the beginning. But I discover that Creative Cloud Desktop has just been updated, so I wait a while before risking downloading it.

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I wait a while, then launch Creative Cloud Desktop to update Photoshop. So say a new version of Photoshop is released. That's especially true for Creative Cloud Desktop, which in the past had a bug that randomly deleted files. When a new update is released, I selfishly wait a while to let others do the beta testing.

It puts updating my software on Adobe's schedule, not mine. Almost every time I launch Creative Cloud Desktop, it tells me an update is available, and all updates seem to be mandatory, so that's another 460 MB or so per computer. This might be foregivable if the Mac had no good package installer, but Apple provides a quite decent package utility.īut it's worse. Adobe Application Manager, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Creative Cloud Experience, and Adobe Sync (all in /Applications/Utilities) together take up 448 MB. Spyware? On launch, it connects to about 40 hosts, including analytics company New Relic.īloatware? Installing it downloads about 460 MB per computer. This is the most evil software I've ever seen that is not, strictly speaking, malware.

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Premiere Pro CC - Video production and editing.

After Effects CC - Cinematic visual effects and motion graphics.

Dreamweaver CC - Websites, app design, and coding.

InDesign CC- Page design, layout, and publishing.

Illustrator CC - Vector graphics and illustration.

Photoshop CC - Image editing and compositing.

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