If you think that selecting a new camera from scratch is hard -- so many choices with hundreds of tiny detailed differences between them -- just wait until you start selecting a Linux distro to run. Heh! Good luck.
The Gimp is somewhere near Ps CS3 in ability lately. I expect it would suit you. You still need a raw converter, but there are a few pretty good ones that run under Linux, so you'll be okay there too. Don't bet on running Photoshop CS5 under WINE. Check this out: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?iId=17&sClass=application Make sure you get large RAM on your new laptop. 16 Gig or up. On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:09 AM, John <sesso...@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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! > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
