First of all thank all of you who responded to my first email for your help. It is greatly appreciated.
I have a background in tech support for hardware and Windoze, but am not real familiar with Linux ecept by reputation. I was the vendor relations officer and editor of the East Tennessee Computer Society Newspaper when I lived in Knoxville. I have seen Linux (We had a Linux SIG), know who Linus is, but the last time I fooled with Linux Red Hat was the leading platform (it was a few years ago). I am building a new system for myself with no OS in it yet, it will be a state of the art system so I am sure it would run whatever distro I choose. Like everyone else I've spoke to, I also hate Windows 10, Microsoft uses the end user for quality control. The deal breaker for me though was that all versions of Windows after XP which was built on the NT kernel cannot be uninstalled and you can't get to true DOS. You litterally have to buy a new hard drive to get rid of it completely or upgrade to a higher version of Windows. So I decided it's time to break with Windows, build a linux box, and probably either put in separate petitions for Linux and Windows and dual boot or use a virtual drive for Windows since professionally I need Windows software. Sometimes the answer to a question leads to more questions. ;-) Let me ask a few more questions if I may: 1. My experience has been that software on virtual drives runs slow. Have any of you tried it, there may have been strides in the software since I tried it, If the programs are going to run slow on a virtual drive I may be better off with a dual boot on separate partitions. 2. Am I correct in assuming Mint is a more simple to use distro, but Ubuntu is more robust? 3. What do you think of Ubuntu distros with software added like Kubuntu. It has KDE's desktop and user environment KDE Plasma 5.9. It uses the 4.10 based Linux kernel, although I think the latest version of Ubuntu is 17.10. I am not sure if I am correct about the Linux versions or if there are any major changes between versions, so any imput would be appreciated. 4. I bought a Linux Pro Magazine and it included Kubuntu (32 bit) and Manjaro Gnome (64 bit) on CDs. Has anyone used Manjaro Gnome? I don't think that is a Ubuntu distro, but I don't know. It comes with the Linux kernel and a collection of the best Gnome and Linux applications, including Firefox, Evolution, LibreOffice, Fresh, and the Lolypop and Totem multimedia players. 5. Also I was wondering what you all use for an anti-virus program with Linux? Do you use Joomla for web authoring software? Eventually I want to run a Linux server, so I was kind of favoring Ubuntu anyway because that is what most Sys Admins use in place of MS Enterprise server software. I want to learn as much as I can before I set up the server. So I am starting with a personal pc with a clean install of the user version first. Any further help you can be would be greatly appreciated. I am putting hot swappable HDD drives on the new system I am building so that could be an alternative to dual boot startups or virtual drives too, but the HDD on the mother board of the new system is solid state for speed and sound suppression. That is why I don't want to install software that can't be uninstalled. Thank you all for your help. Art Shady On Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 9:53:32 AM UTC-6, crossvillegoogler wrote: > I was wondering what distro of Linux you would recommend for someone who > is computer savvy, but pretty new to Linux. > > What is the best way to run products like Photoshop on Linux. I know > there's Gimp and Open Office, but I teach MS Office and Photoshop so I need > access to them. > > Please respond to [email protected] or on this forum ( > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nlug-talk) > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > Art Shady > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
