A. On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 10:17 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lisa uses ubuntu for some of her work and dual boots into > windows xp > mainly for adobe/macromedia photoshop, flash, premiere, after > effects, > director and sound forge. There is a bit she does on a mac as > well. > Often there is something that needs a visual tweak but she is > back in > linux. GIMP she finds hard as she knows photoshop and does not > want to > learn a second way of doing things. Gutsy upgraded GIMP from > 2.2 to 2.4 > which introduced some changes that were not liked so we tried > GIMPshop > but it didn't do what she wanted. > > Wine has succeeded in installing and running but have not yet > extensively tested photoshop CS. Director, and sonic forge > installed and > appear to work. Flash 5 installed but doesn't run. Premier > installed but > looks dodgy on a brief look. Flash MX and after effects failed > to install. > If these programmes could be run in wine or virtualisation > then the need > to switch back and forward between Operating systems in the > middle of > work flow would be removed. > > My question is what of the half dozen available virtualisation > system is > going to be best for this collection of programmes? Does > anyone have any > experience?
I empathize with Linus' 'I'm a pragmaticist' view. Use VMware. It works. Mary runs the windows/photoshop less and less and uses gimp more and more. She finds many tasks easier. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
