If it ran W7, it should fly with UBUNTU. My laptop was sluggish with XP and works just fine under LINUX.
> On 27 May 2017 at 15:26 Jostein <p...@alunfoto.no> wrote: > > > 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! > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
