Printer (and laptop) preferences?

External Since: Feb 03, 2008 Posts: 84

Longfellow wrote:
> On 2008-11-15, ray wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:22:38 -0600, Longfellow wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-11-14, ray wrote:
>
>> Other options: run photoshop on Linux via Wine; install your MS as a
>> virtual machine inside your Linux install with VirtualBox.
>
> Unfortunately, even Crossover WINE only runs Elements, and only at the
> "Silver" level (installs and runs, functionality limited due to
> bugginess). I just checked to make sure that's what the Crossover site
> still says. It would be something like "the best of all possible
> worlds" to be able to run Linux with Photoshop CS4 embedded, but it
> looks like that's just a dream at the moment.
>
> Thing is, a Windows laptop is most likely to serve several different
> applications, and photography is only one of those. I'm setting up to
> do some astrophotography, and will need a Windows machine to control the
> mount. And then there are other hobbies that would benefit from a
> Windows machine as well. So it's Windows as the only choice, AFAIK.

Nice thing on Mac's is running VMWare fusion (which I use) or Parallels.
This allows a full (and licensed from a discarded machine) WinXP
installation on the Mac and both run in parallel, near seamlessly. No
emulation, it is running the OS (with some instructions substituted to
call into Fusion of course). (Much better than 'bootcamp').

When I first got my Mac I ran CS3 in WinXP on the Mac. (Then asked
Adobe to transfer my license to OS X.

Is there such a thing as VMWare Fusion or Parallels for Linux? That
would be a much more seamless way to run PSE or CS3 on a Linux box. Of
course WinXP has to be a legal copy and VMWare fusion costs about $80.
This is anathema to many Linux users.

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External Since: Nov 12, 2008 Posts: 8

On 2008-11-16, Alan Browne wrote:

> Nice thing on Mac's is running VMWare fusion (which I use) or Parallels.
> This allows a full (and licensed from a discarded machine) WinXP
> installation on the Mac and both run in parallel, near seamlessly. No
> emulation, it is running the OS (with some instructions substituted to
> call into Fusion of course). (Much better than 'bootcamp').
>
> When I first got my Mac I ran CS3 in WinXP on the Mac. (Then asked
> Adobe to transfer my license to OS X.
>
> Is there such a thing as VMWare Fusion or Parallels for Linux? That
> would be a much more seamless way to run PSE or CS3 on a Linux box. Of
> course WinXP has to be a legal copy and VMWare fusion costs about $80.
> This is anathema to many Linux users.

This always makes me want to look again at the Mac's. Generally, all I
do is think about doing so, although occasionally I will actually go and
look again.

I recall having had VMWare freebee's a long time ago, and thought the
idea had real merit. Thing was, though, I wasn't using any Microsoft
software at the time, so didn't think I'd need it. Now, however, it's a
different story.

I must assume that there is a VMWare for Linux; as far as I know, there
always has been. And thinking about that once again leads me to wonder
if that is not the optimum solution here. Checking on the VMWare site,
I find that there is a Workstation suite/app for Linux that costs
$189.00US. Dunno if that's worth it when a new laptop comes with
Windows already. I guess the question is whether or not I want to also
run Linux apps as well.

I've never been adverse to paying a reasonable fee for the use of
software, although most of the software suits that have interested me
have had better, more powerful though less user-friendly,
implementations in open source software. Most of the heavy computing
that I've done has been on UNIX systems at work, using industrial
strength software, so I haven't had to turn to Windows as the only game
in town. Things have changed, of course.

Now, I'm looking at paying something south of a grand for the latest
Photoshop and Lightroom software, and that's okay: It's a choice of
software rather than a choice of whether or not to have the software in
the first place. So as far as I'm concerned, it's the matter of choice
that is of real importance. The reason is because I like to know what
my computer is doing and that means having access to the source code
itself; I could modify it if that were really important, but that's not
the main reason, and in this I differ from RMS, et al.

In any case, VMWare is something I'll have to think about; it's one
solution. Thing is, I'm going to have to think about what (how many?)
problems it would solve, if any at all.

Thanks,

Longfellow