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> I miss the days of having a native desktop design app with a perpetual license.

You can go that route with Affinity Designer [1], owned by Canva, who partnered with Anthropic on Claude Design [2]:

We’ve loved collaborating with Anthropic over the past couple of years and share a deep focus on making complex things simple. At Canva, our mission has always been to empower the world to design, and that means bringing Canva to wherever ideas begin. We’re excited to build on our collaboration with Claude, making it seamless for people to bring ideas and drafts from Claude Design into Canva, where they instantly become fully editable and collaborative designs ready to refine, share, and publish.

[1]: https://www.affinity.studio

[2]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-design-anthropic-labs

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I have it, jumped on the affinity band wagon years ago after Adobe started their enshittification process.

After Canva bought Affinity, you now have to authenticate with your email from time to time when you launch the desktop app. Annoying and why do they do that?

Might go back to Affinity 2.

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> Might go back to Affinity 2.

Sure, but they stopped updating Affinity 2; at some point, it's going to stop working unless you never upgrade your operating system.

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