Linux Ubuntu with Oly m4:3 system? - Page 2

fredlong · #11 July 21st, 2012, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Pennington

I probably should have said that I do some professional work - I'm not a full-time pro yet. And I get what you're saying about having the costs of everything built into your pricing, but at the same time it seems that if you can negate some of those costs, then there's more left to go around.

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

dhazeghi · #12 July 27th, 2012, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Pennington

$80 every 18 months? One of us is missing something, because as I see it from Adobe's site, CS5 to CS6 is $199, and my understanding is that after this point, you have to buy each upgrade in order to get the upgrade price, otherwise you have to pay full price.

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

RobWatson · #13 July 27th, 2012, 06:41 PM

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.

Promit · #14 July 27th, 2012, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by RobWatson

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

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.

sLorenzi · #15 July 27th, 2012, 09:04 PM

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.