There's a workaround where you can edit the system (or Adobe's?) file to fake the "phoning home" thing. I don't use Adobe but I saw some people talking about doing this as they know people who have had success doing that.
So I wouldn't know for sure if you can do that but yeah GIMP's better.
Adobe is cloud based. They've been planning this sort of thing all along. It phones home every document you work on too.
There's a workaround where you can edit the system (or Adobe's?) file to fake the "phoning home" thing. I don't use Adobe but I saw some people talking about doing this as they know people who have had success doing that.
So I wouldn't know for sure if you can do that but yeah GIMP's better.