Suse Linux 11.3 64 bit r0x0rs! (Vanity)

[Ancient Drive]

Here's a screenshot of my dektop. I love it!!

[BuffaloJack]

As long as you’re into separate hard drives for two different operating systems, if you computer is newer that 4 or 5 years old, then just leave both HDs in the PC and use the BIOS boot order to select which one is first in the boot order.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That looks pretty clean I remember having 20 and 30 icons under Windows 3.1.

[stainlessbanner]

Tried GIMP years ago....didn't use it much, and tried it again several months ago. It works fantastic - I was pleasantly surprised, intuitive, easy to follow interface.

Bought CS5 earlier this year and I absolutely hate Adobe's pricing and licensing schemes.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Are you aware of this Linux variation of Ubuntu with a special Kernel?:

Ubuntu Studio

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And :

* UbuntuStudio * RealTimeKernel

[2111USMC]

If you are like me and don't want to spend a lot of time “learning” Linux, I would recommend Linux Mint. I've been running it on a second machine here at home and have had absolutely zero problems. Very easy to install and easy to understand interface.

[Texas Fossil]

Not so good if you need to use professional software.

Well, I use both Linux and Windows heavily. Some of the best apps that I used at my last job were open source ported for Windows. Gimp 2.2, ImageMagic, ghostscript, PDFtk, Scibus, Gnumeric, and Grep for Windows.

I honestly like Gimp 2.2 better than Photoshop & Illustrator from CS2. I used it every day for many years.

I used ImageMagic to batch process images for the company website. It is an amazing app. Command line, but very very fast. At one point I created over 80,000 images with it plus the matching thumbnails. It worked flawlessly.

I used Grep (for Windows) to extract sequence intelligence from previous work. Used PDFtk to unzip the .pdf of the previous work and opened it in Notepad++ editor and did a little pre-conditioning and used Grep to extract the sequencing information from the last publishing. (the catalog I maintained was 3,000 pages long, excluding the indexes)

Gnumeric spreadsheet will do RegEx find/replace and is one of the most powerful spreadsheets I have used. It also will make excellent HTML tables directly from the spreadsheet. It will not do everything Excel will do, but there are things that Excel will not do that Gnumeric will. I needed both.

Don't look down your nose on Open Source software and Linux. I have used Linux for over 10 years and truly love it.

[Texas Fossil]

Bought CS5 earlier this year and I absolutely hate Adobe's pricing and licensing schemes.

Yep, and the system load due to "bridge" is huge. Talk about software bloat. And it infuriated me that you had to open some images in Illustrator because Photoshop would not work. With Gimp 2.2 (plus ghostscript) you could do it all in one app.