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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 23:20:08 -0400, DFS wrote:

> "According to recent estimates, Adobe's Creative Cloud subscription
> service had accumulated around 23 million active users as of mid-2022."

*Paying* users, yes. How “active” is “active”? Remember that, if you stop 
paying, you lose control of your own work.

So I rephrase my claim slightly: “Adobe is an irrelevance to 98% of 
Windows users”.

And there are good, in particular less restrictive, open source 
alternatives to all of Adobe’s main products, no matter what their 
marketing department tells you.

> 23M new Linux users would be a significant increase to the Linux
> installed base of 17 (I didn't forget the M).

The number of copies of Linux in active daily use is far greater than 
that.