Quoting Henk Terhell <hterh...@chello.nl>:
Agree Linux Ubuntu is the way to to go to wipe off XP on your old PC
and feel comfortable about these XP hazards. However I soon got
tired of the interface of Ubuntu and switched now to the
light-weight Ubuntu version Lubuntu on both an old desktop and a
laptop. LibreOffice and all of the Ubuntu software you need can be
downloaded seperately in Lubuntu after installation. Lubuntu looks
more like XP and is very fast.
Both Ubuntu and Lubuntu will get a new version on April 17 with
5-year support. All at no cost.
There is no Photoshop/Lightroom for Linux (only GIMP) but I use a
Win8 desktop for that.
And that, I think, is the main problem. There really isn't a
Photoshop alternative on Linux. GIMP threatens to get there but it's
a long time coming.
I used Ubuntu for a year or two but eventually got sick of having to
boot into XP to run Photoshop (I could never get it to run
successfully under Wine on Linux).
These days I use Win 7 on my desktop and Vista on the laptop (despite
it's bad reputation, I've found Vista quite OK).
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
Henk
mike wilson schreef op 8-4-2014 08:31:
Not to prosyletise too much; you really should try Ubuntu. Download
the installation iso from Ubuntu.com and try it running from a disk
before you install. Unless there are specific Windows-only apps that
you need, just about everything you want can be run as an equivalent.
Firefox and T'bird can transfer their content to the new versions.
Libre Office can be set to save files as Office versions by default.
Filezilla is a cross-system FTP app. Plenty of other apps in the
repositories.
As a bonus, Ubuntu seems to use much less of your machine's resources
to run. It speeded up the start on an old netbook using XP from
"press the button, then go and make a cup of tea properly and I might
be ready by then" (really) to about 40 seconds.
On 08/04/2014, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support
will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death at
the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another way,
B S. Given one has one's own virus protection and spam-blocker, that is.
Anyone else have more educated opinions than mine? I SO don't want
to give up XP...
ann
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