I hear you. Just try not to lowball your prices because of doing without an expense. It's hard to raise your pricing down the road. Stay close to market value even if you don't currently have all the expenses.

Fred

I'm speaking of Adobe Lightroom. I see no reason why people who are not graphics arts professionals should either need or want Photoshop.

For the handful of photography-oriented tasks that Photoshop accomplishes that LR cannot, there are certainly more than enough low-priced alternatives (including older versions of Photoshop itself).

DH

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Dual boot is a pretty painless way to play before making a full switchover - as has been mentioned.

I still can't get my wireless to work and I've been at it for WAY too long. In windows I can expose the driver settings easily but hours and hours of googling don't reveal how to do that with ubuntu or even get the wireless drivers working.

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I prefer virtual machines by far, but without lots of memory and fast drives to work with, VMs tend to end in disaster. My machines are 8-16 GB of RAM and quality 7200 RPM drives, which support Linux installations fairly well. Thinking about buying a VelociRaptor though; SSD prices have dropped but not far enough for multimedia work, not yet.

As for the wireless drivers, the best thing to do is to collect all the hardware details (from the syslog? Maybe from /udev?) and go check the Ubuntu forums.

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In this thread: B/W Film "Atmosphere" the member Mauve talked about Digikam. Seems to be a very good photography software in Linux, but I can't say for sure, because I don't use Linux.

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