Do you use commercial paid software or for free tools?

[pousinha]

Sometimes, when it comes to perform tasks due to online activities, we need a specific software. For ex., a video creator. I often need a slide creator to upload my musical rehearsal. I get paid from platforms for my rehearsal. But I don't earn enough to justify the purchasing of Camtasia Studio or any other commercial productive software. So I rely on SlideShow Creator and ClipChamp (this latter, offered by Windows 10 and 11, so when it comes to make a video, I switch from Linux to Windows). And I always use the free version of whatever commercial tool (not the 30 day test, but a limit featured tool).

 

[freelancermaria]

Free tools as of the moment as I do not have the budget to pay for paid software. I want to buy Canva in the future.

 

[pousinha]

If universities, banks and companies would accept Linuxian software, we weren't never forced to purchase commercial software. My university compels us to Word for our academic jobs (but I still stick with ancient versions (Office 2007 and 2016) to avoid the purchasing of Office 360 (incompatible with my very old devices and very heavy for the new.

 

[Kirubel]

Personally i use a free tools for my works, its hard to pay for those paid softwares every month.

 

[pousinha]

We'd need, in fact, the salary of a parliamentary, if we run after this and that subscription, beginning with Office 360, then Camtasia Studio, then whatever else productive stuff. We don't earn enough to support all these subscriptions.