Haven't needed to use my current laptop since last October. I got it out to make sure I had all the Windoze 7 security updates installed before I head off to Grandfather Mountain next weekend.
Things ain't looking so good. I got a BSD 01a the first time I tried to run the update. Second time ended with an Update Failure w/unidentified error. Third time I've got it checking for updates to see if maybe there are some I need to install first ... It's been running the "Checking for Updates" for about 2 hours now. The laptop is about 10 years old IIRC. Toshiba A205. I still like it a lot, it has 2 Hard-drives - 500GB & 1TB - and a DVDRW Optical drive. Don't think I'm going to find that in a new laptop. AND because it's a WINDOZE computer (Win 7 Pro 64bit) it will run PhotoshopCS5 - maybe not great with just 4GB RAM & only 3.5GB of that usable, but it does run. Trying to "upgrade" to Windoze 10 was such a disaster I refuse to have it on any computer I own, and the price for a MacBook Pro is so outrageously expensive to get the one I'd want is just too much pain. So I'm thinking about a Linux laptop. Which means either GIMP for image editing or trying to run PhotoShop on WINE. I know there are some Linux users here, maybe even a Guru or two. Anyone using GIMP recently? Or running PhotoShop using WINE? Or is there another way? Help! -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
