Photoshop without Creative cloud?

[Denis25828822fm22]

I have almost 20 (20, Carl) processes in the memory related to adobe and creative cloud while CC is not running! Some of  them consumes some CPU resources, not much, but why they have to do it? I'm using Photoshop/Lightroom very occasionally, but Adobe garbage processes consume resources every single second!

[Denis25828822fm22]

I have a subscription, but recently saw autonomous installer on some trnt tracker, without all that bloatware and without a subscription, obviously. I'm thinking now: why should I pay for all that garbage in the memory when I can get what I need without garbage and for free?

[D Fosse]

In all likelihood it will be packed with malware. Why would anyone offer it for free? Idealism? Ask yourself: do you feel lucky?

Bloat? How, exactly? If you have specific performance problems, start a new thread with a little more specifics and system info.

It all works very smoothly here and uses the hardware resources I expect it to use. It doesn't get in the way of anything else. So bloat how?