Pull the drives, stick them on a dock to extract any data that you need. Reinstall them and put on your distro. Put the data back. Kapow! A laptop that will run better than it ever did with W7 for the sum of, Oh! nothing!
The bonus is freeing yourself from the Adobe yoke. George Melly said that the bonus from getting old was losing your libido - it was like being unshackled from a lunatic. Think of LINUX and Adobe in the same way. > On 27 May 2017 at 22:18 John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > No. If I have to replace the Toshiba I'm looking for new hardware with > Linux already installed. > > If possible I want to be able to install & run my existing licensed copy > of Photoshop CS5 on the new Linux machine. > > On 5/27/2017 10:26, Jostein wrote: > > Hi John, > > If I read you right, you exclude Apple on price, and a new Microsoft > > machine because of past experience with Win 10. > > But this Linux thing... Do you expect to reuse your existing hardware > > for that? > > Jostein > > > > Den 27.05.2017 16.09, skrev John: > >> 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. > >> > <SNIP> > >> > >> 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. -- 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.
