I use L Snitch from version one. After Catalina I plan to run offline mac for design, photography and video work connected to intranet/NAS. Everything that connects to outside network traffic will be properly run on linux boxes. This is the future. You will not own your data until you create a procedure to guard it as permitted by law. Apple is gone, you have now a different company working for shareholders only. Another step that I personally advocate to my friends is to use only software designed to run on multiple os hosts. I cannot risk some corporate decision motivated by pure greed to kill my workflow. Apple has a plan to close Mac Os completely, its their business to make more money by controlling the experience full circle. Thats why I overcome the lust factor and will not buy any Apple product anymore. If I need a camera - I will buy a camera, if I need a phone I will buy something that can be rooted and I have control over it. I expect in near future more commercial software to be made for linux and will pay good money for it without a moment of hesitation
> After Catalina I plan to run offline mac for design, photography and video work connected to intranet/NAS.
Good luck. Keep in mind you won't be able to use any software that requires online activation (Adobe products, Sketch), and certainly none of the apps that won't launch without internet (Figma).
In my office I have chosen to invest in “no cloud” design software dependency. We don’t believe in collaborative UX/UI design workflow outside the office. We use our own code based workflow for prototyping. I am in design field 18 years, there is a way to deliver quality in pure form without using trending tools, cloud based plugins and direct collaboration. Convenience is not always the king. But this is strictly my decision and I don’t imply thats is for everyone.
For UI/Graphic design/Print : Affinity Designer / Photo / Publisher. For UX our in-house software. For Video/Animation : Davinci Resolve/Fusion. 3d/Animation - Blender. Raw Therapee for photo processing.There are small apps that help in between but none of them are cloud based. More emotionally explained: I started to hate Adobe with my heart after they killed Fireworks. When Affinity launched their products I was skeptical at first but now are very, very good.
