I suppose Ubuntu is fun if you’re a techy and like to play with computers. But if you’re a photographer, an operating system that won’t run the best image processing software sucks dead dog dick.
Paul On Apr 8, 2014, at 2:31 AM, mike wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
