As far as dickin 'round with Walmart knockoffs.. you don't seem to know free and open-source software now, do you? Let me tell you about GIMP (GNU Linux Image Manipulation Program). It can do anything Photoshop can do, and it is completely free, as it is developed by a world community of voluntary Linux coders, again, for free.
I doubt Walmart would ever sell something like that, not even on knockoff, as you name it, as that would get them into legal trouble, because Open Source is an official license.
While y'all may be wealthy enough to pay all these ransom software fees for industrial standard (i.e. proprietary) software, how about some free and open source software (FOSS)?
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Nov 28, 2022 - 2:57pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I was CS6 until January; it finally got to be too much of a headache. Made the jump and love it, but I'm hoboing off of my daughter's college account
The latest stuff is really cool though. And they're finally mostly done making the switch to M1 ... I couldn't get Bridge to work until just recently.
Yup still using CS6.5 because I refuse to pay to rent software. Spent thousands of dollars since Illustrator 88 and still have a beef with them not offering a perpetual license. Screwed over all of us who supported them from the beginning.
Adobe doesnât play well with others since they wiped out Macromedia back then. Got all those boxes of software versions on a shelf in my basement office.
I use the free CC stuff just to keep me up to date just in case I get a job some day.
I was CS6 until January; it finally got to be too much of a headache. Made the jump and love it, but I'm hoboing off of my daughter's college account
The latest stuff is really cool though. And they're finally mostly done making the switch to M1 ... I couldn't get Bridge to work until just recently.
While y'all may be wealthy enough to pay all these ransom software fees for industrial standard (i.e. proprietary) software, how about some free and open source software (FOSS)?
Adobe has a problem with backward and forward compatibility software.
My older MP will no longer work with Adobe XD. And now theyâve bought rival Figma. Just like they killed Macromedia.
I was CS6 until January; it finally got to be too much of a headache. Made the jump and love it, but I'm hoboing off of my daughter's college account
The latest stuff is really cool though. And they're finally mostly done making the switch to M1 ... I couldn't get Bridge to work until just recently.
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Nov 27, 2022 - 7:41pm
ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Yep. I have 16 in my MBP and have trouble running a full complement of Adobe stuff.
Adobe has a problem with backward and forward compatibility software.
My older MP will no longer work with Adobe XD. And now theyâve bought rival Figma. Just like they killed Macromedia.
My employer is supposed to be looking at a maxxed out mini for me; I'll tell him Costco's got the price.
The only problem with the Costco mini's are that they only carry 8GB of RAM. An extra 8GB of ram is $200...which is a worthwhile upgrade (IMO) that you can't make after the fact.
I was shocked yesterday in Costco to see the old 27" iMac on sale for $1150. It was $750 off. It's an older format, but that seemed like a crazy price to me for a really nice desktop with a huge, really nice 5K retina display. I'd go for that over the mini just for the screen. I also think you get the keyboard and mouse with the iMac that doesn't come with the mini.
I'm looking for reasons to upgrade/not upgrade to Windows11. My normal default is to
not upgrade anything that is working fine for me,
but then I may eventually be forced to. Thoughts?
That is generally how I roll. By my experience, upgrading an existing Windows OS doesn't always go smoothly. If by upgrading it means getting a whole new PC, that is a different story.
I recently had to get a new PC cause my Win 7 rig got the blue screen of death and died. Pretty sure the HDD failed. Haven't got around to trying to bring it back to life yet.
Win 11, to my surprise is ok. Was not a fan of Win 10 that I have to use on the PC's at work. Win 7 was working just fine as far as I was concerned. I still use XP with an offline music puter.
Again, I have gotten used to 11. I can live with it. Pretty intuitive once you get familiar with the new names for old things. Do know that if getting a new PC, the way the hard drives are installed, there are no more bays or easy way to add more inside a desktop box. The SSD's are mounted directly to the motherboard as I recently discovered when I got my Mom a new one. The Win 11 Dell I bought for myself evidently was one of the last ones made with SATA hard drives and bays for more.
I'm looking for reasons to upgrade/not upgrade to Windows11. My normal default is to not upgrade anything that is working fine for me, but then I may eventually be forced to. Thoughts?
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Nov 16, 2022 - 12:38pm
Iâve used Parallels for many years so I could use it for testing with Web Dev. on one computer with Mac OS, Windows and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the only one I had trouble getting to work right, but that was probably my fault in downloading the OS.
In fact I was looking to update Parallels last month to a more current version to run on my older desktop and OS X.
the whole virtual machine proposition looks interesting
isn;t that where you log on to a provider and set up how much compute that you need for a monthly charge?
of course i could have that confused with something else
i watched a few videos some time back and it looked a bit costly
probably great for those who travel or access from multiple locations tho
edit: got an older video on virtual box playing now
edit edit: so it's a partition program?
Nope. It takes some space on your local harddrive in the form of files. VMs are running in a sandbox, isolated from your local operating system, so they can't do any harm to it. VMs share computing power (CPU, graphics, RAM, storage) with the host operating system and hardware they run on.
Most all resources used in a VM are tunable to the degree one prefers.
the whole virtual machine proposition looks interesting
isn;t that where you log on to a provider and set up how much compute that you need for a monthly charge?
of course i could have that confused with something else
i watched a few videos some time back and it looked a bit costly
probably great for those who travel or access from multiple locations tho
edit: got an older video on virtual box playing now
If budget and time was no obstacle and security was not a concern, which operating system family would you chose for music? Ubuntu, Mac OS, MS Windoze?
for practicality, windows and mac, hands down
i'm tech curious but this isn't my area of expertise
if i was an IT professional and had the time and space
maybe a machine or two with mint and or ubuntu for fun
with linux/debian i'd use mint for personal stuff and ubuntu for anything stronger
seems ubuntu has better support in place
i'm not a power user
i use ms office for some work stuff
at home i stream a lot of music and video , burn a disc or two
really hard to beat an ipad around the house for consuming media on youtube
imho, the basic ipad is one of the best bargains out there for portable home media consumption/surfing
it is one of the first things i grab in the morning to check news feed and stream media
shower and shave with it daily
steam, heat, etc. and it just keeps on plugging
