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My thinkpad works very well with linux, I recommend Zorin or Arch
by skuthus 6y ago
My thinkpad works very well with linux, I recommend Zorin or Arch
- andrei_says_ 6y agoHow do you run photoshop?
- Sunspark 6y agoPeople working in Linux will use GIMP, but you can also use Photoshop in a virtual machine, or possibly even natively using WINE. Here is a link for someone who did just that: https://www.archviet.com/how-to-run-photoshop-on-linux-with-wine/ https://www.archviet.com/how-to-run-photoshop-on-linux-with-...
- boogies 6y agoOr Krita, some people have a strong preference for it.
- heavyset_go 6y agoPhotoshop works pretty well in Wine, and Windows runs quickly using KVM. Linux also has native support for hardware pass-through if your machine has an IOMMU, so you can give virtual machines direct access to graphics cards and get GPU acceleration in your VM, along with USB devices, etc. VirtIO is built into the kernel and can provide you with paravirtualized network and storage access, which can speed things up considerably.
- Sunspark 6y agoArch is only a recommendation for people with a fair bit of experience. I have some experience, and I still needed to check some webpages to find out what I was missing when I tried installing Arch as the official manual doesn't spell out every step that is needed. For "easy" for people who don't have time or experience, I would instead recommend Pop!_OS https://pop.system76.com/ https://pop.system76.com/ flash a liveusb stick and you can try it out on your hardware without needing to install it first.
- johnday 6y agoIf the only concern is the install process, I would recommend Manjaro. It has its own installer, but you still get the powerful pacman package manager and the Arch repositories which are the most cutting-edge around.
- Shared404 6y agoI've had Manjaro bork itself a couple of times. I'd recommend against it.
- bashinator 6y agoArch is neat, and their documentation and forums are amazingly great. However, I have zero desire to be my laptop's sysadmin. Pop! OS runs great on my Thinkpad.
- nextos 6y agoIf you have a simple setup and friendly hardware (e.g. all Intel), the sysadmin burden is super low. In this regard, only NixOS compares. Even macOS is much much worse, as you need to go through upgrades. I have used the same Arch install for 8 years.
- heavyset_go 6y agoI've been using Ubuntu for over a decade because my days of fiddling with my computer to get things to work are over. In general, Ubuntu just works without much configuration on the user's end. I've noticed a trend where people who are new to Linux will jump on Arch because they believe it'll give them more power, or that they'll learn more by using it. Or people will install Kali because they think it is what hackers use, and completely miss the fact that Kali isn't meant to be installed at all. It's all Linux under the hood, and you get the same amount of power no matter which distro you use. And when you use a distro with sane defaults like Ubuntu, you're able to dig into the internals whenever it suits you, and not because an update broke your computer.
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