My primary concern was RAM requirements for WINE... :-) Jostein Den 27. mai 2017 23.09.48 CEST, skrev mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com>: >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.
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