Hi John,
If I read you right, you exclude Apple on price, and a new Microsoft
machine because of past experience with Win 10.
But this Linux thing... Do you expect to reuse your existing hardware
for that?
Jostein
Den 27.05.2017 16.09, skrev 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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