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I'm a very L-O-N-G time Linux user mostly professionally (research / development) because the desktop / home versions have not been anywhere as usable as the MS OS. I played with most every Distro but several years ago Linux Mint came about and had most of the ease of use MS (I refuse to use the name of the OS) offered and just installed from scratch Mint 21.3. I'd previously used 21.2 but I really wanted a fresh install just because.

Mint has proven itself to be 100% reliable, crash proof, secure, flexible (multiple desktops available) and fast on my aging Intel 3.6GHz. i7 processor with 16 gigs of memory on a very small 500GB drive with ample resources left spare for growth on both.

The one vexing problem Linux distros have is getting and installing device drivers. The O/S went right in and getting the software I regularly use was a snap but I spent a day and a half trying to get one of my obsolete USB Wi-Fi adapters running but finally it's installed. Funny now that the $80 PITA adapter is running, it's slower than the three $6 types from Ebay! I just like the flexibility of having more than one option (even if it's an arcane technology) to use Wi-Fi so in the long run I guess it was worth the effort.

I'm now using Mint for over 10 years and I have to say I wouldn't use slow, bloated Winblows if they paid me. Really, I mean it!
 
One guy who hasn’t been around in a while used Linux on his computer. He spoke highly of it.

Do you ever have any conflicts with software? I use Adobe Photoshop a lot. Does it run on Linux?

My wife gave me an Apple laptop. It was her work laptop and she got a new one. They told her to keep the old laptop!

It’s ok. I think MSFT is better though.

Who makes Linux?
 
Jeepnik said:
I did find one comment humorous. "small 500GB hard drive". I guess I'm just old , but I remember using computers without hard drives. And when dual floppies came out it was game changing.
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You're not old, tech has a way of filling voids not yet available and created to fill needs undiscovered :) In phones we call it "bloatware" Programmers have a knack of negating any processor speed advancements by slathering more code onto applications.

I retired from IBM's PC development division and was hired away from IBM field engineering because I had a portable "Osborne 1" with a single 60 kilobyte floppy drive that used the CP/M OS. Nobody had a clue how a computer worked. My first hard drive was 5 megabytes and we thought... "how in the world will I ever fill this thing"?

Kevin, even though I "could" install photoshop here I do not. Instead I use Gimp and Pinta they do everything I need to them to do. In my experience conflicts are non-existant, no need for virus protection or arcane tools like defraggers.

This is an old article and needs updating but see; https://www.techradar.com/news/photoshop-vs-gimp
 
Kevin said:
One guy who hasn't been around in a while used Linux on his computer. He spoke highly of it.

Do you ever have any conflicts with software? I use Adobe Photoshop a lot. Does it run on Linux?

My wife gave me an Apple laptop. It was her work laptop and she got a new one. They told her to keep the old laptop!

It's ok. I think MSFT is better though.

Who makes Linux?
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There are many different distros, some call them flavors of Linux that various businesses put out like Mint, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Fedora, Zorin, etc quite a few to check out. They are free to download and you can either install or try out a live USB for many to try the system before installing. There are often ways to install Photoshop but I would also use GIMP which is quite good. Using the terminal line which is becoming less needed with Linux upgrades is one of the things that can discourage some from trying. That plus unless you go to the trouble of partitioning off the hard drive and keeping things straight Linux will wipe out the existing system. My husband has been using Linux for 6 years or so first on a tablet that Windows got hosed on and then picked up a lower end Lenovolaptop(4GB RAM, 128 GB SSD) like you may get a young person and not spend a ton on and just experimented away. Not long ago he got another laptop with more processing power and using Clonezilla copied the Lenovo to the new PC which has 20GB RAM and a 1TB SSD and more powerful processor.
 
gnappi said:
You're not old, tech has a way of filling voids not yet available and created to fill needs undiscovered :) In phones we call it "bloatware" Programmers have a knack of negating any processor speed advancements by slathering more code onto applications.

I retired from IBM's PC development division and was hired away from IBM field engineering because I had a portable "Osborne 1" with a single 60 kilobyte floppy drive that used the CP/M OS. Nobody had a clue how a computer worked. My first hard drive was 5 megabytes and we thought... "how in the world will I ever fill this thing"?

Kevin, even though I "could" install photoshop here I do not. Instead I use Gimp and Pinta they do everything I need to them to do. In my experience conflicts are non-existant, no need for virus protection or arcane tools like defraggers.

This is an old article and needs updating but see; https://www.techradar.com/news/photoshop-vs-gimp
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We had an Osborne for our Computer Science classes in high school in the late 70s and early 80s. I remember it had an 8” floppy drive. We also had 3 TRS-80 model 1s. The typing classes had 24 Apple IIs but we weren’t allowed to touch them!
I’m a field engineer in public safety communications and our radio system cores have a large number of Windows and Red Hat Linux virtual machines that I have the great joy of deploying and maintaining so I’m neck deep in it every day. I want nothing to do with computers when I get home at the end of the day!
 
gnappi said:
I'm a very L-O-N-G time Linux user mostly professionally (research / development) because the desktop / home versions have not been anywhere as usable as the MS OS. I played with most every Distro but several years ago Linux Mint came about and had most of the ease of use MS (I refuse to use the name of the OS) offered and just installed from scratch Mint 21.3. I'd previously used 21.2 but I really wanted a fresh install just because.

Mint has proven itself to be 100% reliable, crash proof, secure, flexible (multiple desktops available) and fast on my aging Intel 3.6GHz. i7 processor with 16 gigs of memory on a very small 500GB drive with ample resources left spare for growth on both.

The one vexing problem Linux distros have is getting and installing device drivers. The O/S went right in and getting the software I regularly use was a snap but I spent a day and a half trying to get one of my obsolete USB Wi-Fi adapters running but finally it's installed. Funny now that the $80 PITA adapter is running, it's slower than the three $6 types from Ebay! I just like the flexibility of having more than one option (even if it's an arcane technology) to use Wi-Fi so in the long run I guess it was worth the effort.

I'm now using Mint for over 10 years and I have to say I wouldn't use slow, bloated Winblows if they paid me. Really, I mean it!
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I use a MacBook. Will Mint work well on it?
 
I use Ubuntu for several of my personal projects -

I think Mint is one of the best for a go to computer.

Does Photoshop run on it? Not that I have seen without an emulator.

I prefer Mac's - especially if I can get good deals on them.
 
I've been running Linux on my home computer since the 90s. Back then, I was working with unix on workstations and 386ix (a unix operating system for PC architecture).

I ran Ubuntu for quite a while, and Mint for about the last 10 years.... why anyone would use BillGates is beyond me.
 
Whatever happened to DOS 1357.207? Worked so well for the Starship Enterprise! o_O:);):ROFLMAO:
 
Linux Mint is running well as the only OS on an old iMac. Not quite the same as a MacBook, but close.

I've run Linux on the desktop since the early-mid '90s; since around when OS/2 Warp (4) was still around. SuSE was always my favorite, but these days it has an inexcusable degree of difficulty with WiFi adapters and a couple other irritating things out of the box, so I run Mint.

I most prefer OS X (now macOS), but dislike the degree of lock-down (non-customizability) and to-me-nonsensical changes from rev to rev.
 
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