I would think it is cheaper and safer to buy a new Windows 10 PC than a
linux PC with comparable performance. Then install linux on a partition
if you like and keep your Photoshop on Windows10.
I have a couple of older desktops and a laptop which are solely running
linux distros (Debian, Xubuntu, Lubuntu Mint etc.) for all sorts of
programs and for backup.
Using linux with its great inventory of free programs can be much fun.
But I still prefer RAW conversion in Lightroom on a decent i7 desktop
with W10.
Henk
Op 2017-05-27 om 16:09 schreef 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.
Third time I've got it checking for updates to see if maybe there are
some I need to install first ...
It's been running the "Checking for Updates" for about 2 hours now.
The laptop is about 10 years old IIRC. Toshiba A205. I still like it a
lot, it has 2 Hard-drives - 500GB & 1TB - and a DVDRW Optical drive.
Don't think I'm going to find that in a new laptop. AND because it's a
WINDOZE computer (Win 7 Pro 64bit) it will run PhotoshopCS5 - maybe not
great with just 4GB RAM & only 3.5GB of that usable, but it does run.
Trying to "upgrade" to Windoze 10 was such a disaster I refuse to have
it on any computer I own, and the price for a MacBook Pro is so
outrageously expensive to get the one I'd want is just too much pain.
So I'm thinking about a Linux laptop. Which means either GIMP for image
editing or trying to run PhotoShop on WINE.
I know there are some Linux users here, maybe even a Guru or two.
Anyone using GIMP recently? Or running PhotoShop using WINE?
Or is there another way?
Help!
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