What cheaper software alternatives did you start using when legalizing software? (Development)?

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In the answers to the previous question , cheaper analogues for Delphi and Altium Designer (former P-CAD) were found, with an estimated savings of ~ 14.7 times. Now I would like to touch upon the problem of legalization in general.
Question 1: what cheaper / free software analogues did you use when legalizing your software park? (without switching to another OS)
Question 2: what cheaper / free OS analogues did you use during legalization and what software analogues did you switch to? Interested not only in the usual examples of the form: Windows -> Ubuntu or Microsoft Office -> OpenOffice ( LibreOffice), but also examples of analogues of more specific software of various kinds and applications (especially software from 1C ). What difficulties arose with this or that software? How did you cope with the need to replace specific software, the installation of analogues of which without dancing with a tambourine is difficult or impossible, how long did it take, what were the implementation costs? (examples like: “scored because…… ....” are also welcome)
ps A couple more questions)
What are the analogues for Adobe Photoshop for a designer/photographer? For a designer, as I understand it - GIMP (it is unlikely that he will want to relearn, but still an option), and for a photographer - Adobe Lightroom .
Total: ~$250 for EN Retail Lightroom versus ~$1250 for RU Retail Photoshop. An interesting situation with the Ukrainian version of Photoshop is the price of Adobe Photoshop UA Retail ~ $420!
What are the analogues for CoredDRAW (~500$) \ Adobe Illustrator (Ru ~ 1100$, UA ~ 360$)? Of the free solutions, such as worthy Inkscape , but can this program work normally with cdr format, more precisely, can any third-party vector program work with the native CorelDRAW format?
Thanks in advance for your replies

Answer 1

Instead of desktop computers, everyone began to use personal laptops.

Answer 2

Probably not very relevant. But two companies I know just bought Office 365 and a pack of atomic machines with Win7 as part of a complete hardware update and software legalization (old computers of the stump class 4/512 memory / 40-60-80GB screws), which killed a bunch of hares with crap. For 1C, we set up a server farm for remote desktops. And all graphics and design were given to design offices for outsourcing.
Unfortunately, even in my practice, there were enough documents that caused libre / openofis to crash or did not open correctly, even if they were sent in the 2003 office format. So while the office is easier to buy, unfortunately.

Answer 3

There is also an analogue of CoredDRAW, sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=sk1&op=screenshots#screenshots
my way of replacing the software was in 2 stages:
1. Replacing the software with open source (about 90%)
2. Replacing the OS on Ubuntu
Although it's easier for me, I'm a web developer from programs only Adobe Photoshop is indispensable. I couldn’t master GIMP, I’m already very used to Photoshop

Answer 4

Personally, I had only 2 such programs: the bat instead of outlook and EDRAW Max instead of Visio.

Answer 5

Thanks for the question) I'll follow
I don't have a list yet - I'm looking for it. So far, the following has been selected:
* Archiver 7-zip.org/
* File manager multicommander.com/
* Images www.xnview.com/en/
* Graph. editor: www.getpaint.net/
* Chrome browser
* Mail: Thunderbird
* Office: www.libreoffice.org + Dictionary extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/russian-spellcheck-dictionary.-based-on-works-of- aot-group + Grammar extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/lightproof-grammar-checker-for-russian
* IM Skype (Corporate Standard)
* Microsoft Essentials Antivirus
* PC Information: HWiNFO www.hwinfo.com/
This is for manager machines.
1C will be smoothly replaced by Megaplan and something else.
The developers are still installing:
* Aptana www.aptana.com/
* Notepad++ notepad-plus-plus.org/
Now I'm studying licenses - not everything, maybe free for the office. Something may be free for the home, but costs money for use in the office
. In parallel, I read about the difference between photoshop and fireworks. There is an opinion that it is not always necessary to have an older brother.

Answer 6

in the nineties the witch hunt called BSA started and that's when I started moving clients from Windows and Netware to Linux with Samba. now, I generally have everything open source, and I work in an open source company, with Linux on all desktops and openoffice for all documents