That does bring up some interesting questions:
1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom & Photoshop for Linux?
2. IIRC, there used to be a windoze emulator for Linux called WINE that
was good enough that some earlier versions would run on it. Whatever
happened to that?
3. Mac OS is based on some king of Linux/Unix under layer. Why isn't
there some kind of Mac emulator for Linux that would allow you to run
the Mac versions of Photoshop/Lightroom?
PS: I'm pretty sure there's a Lightroom clone for Linux - can't remember
the name of it off the top of my head right now - that works a bit
better than Gimp does as a Photoshop clone.
On 4/8/2014 9:48 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
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
<m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> 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 <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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