On 09/06/2016 05:48 PM, J dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
<snip> Don't need to repeat everything Jeff said. He is really good by the way as is Scott.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:17 PM, merrowb@yahoo.com [LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
The second alternative would be to, as other's mentioned, run a VM and use that for your craft programs and use Linux for everything else like day to day web-surfing, email, video watching, etc.
The easiest way to run VMs is probably going to either be VMWare Player or VirtualBox. There are many, MANY others as well, that are varying degrees of difficulty.
I have never run VMWare but I have a lot of experience running Virtualbox. With Virtualbox, to get up and running you don't ever go to the command line of necessity. Everything is graphical and you just use the app to build your virtual windows machine. I have found that virtual windows machines are much more stable than windows by itself. Also, for whatever reason it boots significantly faster as a VM than as an physical machine. That is probably because I only load those programs that I absolutely must use on the Windows machine and do everything else on Linux including any programs that work well with WINE.
As others also mentioned, you can take Mint (or most modern distributions) and make bootable USB sticks and try them without messing up your existing installation. In addition to Mint, I recommend Ubuntu to people (Mint is based on Ubuntu). Full disclosure, I work for the company that makes Ubuntu, so while I say take that with a grain of salt, I also use Ubuntu on everything (and have since well before I started working at Canonical), including my Macbook Air (which runs both Ubuntu and OSX).
Pretty cool that he includes the disclaimer but I would suggest after you are familiar with Mint that you might give Ubuntu a try. I have. There are several different desktops (ask later what this means when you are more familiar) available for Ubuntu including some that run very effectively on really old hardware.Good luck!
Jeff
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