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I hate sketch, not because it's an Apple only product, but because it's horrible to navigate. I couldn't imagine using it with out a side scrolling mouse, and none of the "normal" keyboard shortcuts work. The plugins are horrible and almost always cause more problems then they fix.

But the biggest issue, and this may be the designers that I work with, but I'm not sure. The files are huge. The smallest file I have worked with was 80mb, yesterday I received a file that was almost 1gb! It had every page, with all the text, in every size, it was insane, I turned the job down based on that alone. It had a decent budget, but the client expected way too much. And the designs for each page were different, which as we know can cause issues for the overall UX.

The screenshot is from my PC as I don't have my OS X VM fired up right now, but that's a real file, just shown with XD.

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    Designers fault for the filesize, my library is 30mb but my designs usually around one MB.

    At home all is fine and dandy, plugins rarely crash (but happens). I hate that I'm not getting the source from an paid plugin for an easy fix.

    I have the same issue at work though. Most likely the plugins crash simply because of the ram usage.

    Overall, I hate it's osx only, but I really do like it a lot. I hate overcomplicated UIs and Sketch keeps itself close to the SVG spec. I like the Sketch file format, since it's just an zip with a whole lot of json's.

    Last but not least I open the files on my Gaming PC that is only for Sketch converted to an hackingtosh.
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    @010001111 - I have what you would call a "gaming" pc - but I don't play games on my computer, I can't. I'm on my computer for too many hours a day, that's what my console is for. I have an i5 8400 with 20gb RAM (i know, it started as an HP I bought on black friday for $299 - it had 12gb of ram - i knew the RAM and the CPU were worth that. Shortly after I purchased a case and an MSI Gaming PRO motherboard and threw in my EVGA 550watt PSU and (R7 260X OC by ASUS video card) - and I bought another 8gb stick of the same samsung RAM (DDR4 2666mhz) so I have 2x8GB + 1x4gb.

    On a side note, the HP came with a 1TB SATA drive, when the computer came in the mail, the first thing I did was remove the drive, and I thought it would be funny to mail it back to HP with a note saying, "I bought your MODEL XXX (cant think of it now) PC - and all anyone wants is the parts you've so perfectly assembled, the cable management is great, etc. But you can keep the bloatware."
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