Morning Gang!
Adding myself to your forums. Long time Windows user (and Windows "9" will be my last Windows version) and casual *nix user, with a strong preference for Debian-based distros. Systems Admin (Windows) by profession, fetish photographer by passion. Been experimenting with *nix since SuSE Linux was sold in a box in retail stores. But given the direction of where Windows is going, I need to get a jump start on using it on a serious basis. Steam/Proton has solved my extremely modest gaming needs, which leaves the photography program LightRoom, which is going to be something of a problem to replace as I'm rather heavily invested in its workflow. On occasion I use PhotoShop, but it's such a light use that practically anything else will work.
I currently have Crunchbang plus plus on an Asus laptop and occasional power management issues aside with sleep, it's running great and the minimalist Openbox DE is just fantastic. My main workstation is a Dell Precision T7610 with twin Xeons, and AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 GFX card, waaaay too many SAS drives on Dell's RAID card a LSI SAS2 2308, a pair of PCIe m.2 cards and 64GB of ECC Registered DDR3 RAM.
So really, I'm here to learn and find options when Windows "9"...Windows 8.1 embedded Industry Pro with a Windows 7 GUI, goes out of support in a few years, but I'd rather not be caught off guard when that times rolls around.
Cheers!
NB
Adding myself to your forums. Long time Windows user (and Windows "9" will be my last Windows version) and casual *nix user, with a strong preference for Debian-based distros. Systems Admin (Windows) by profession, fetish photographer by passion. Been experimenting with *nix since SuSE Linux was sold in a box in retail stores. But given the direction of where Windows is going, I need to get a jump start on using it on a serious basis. Steam/Proton has solved my extremely modest gaming needs, which leaves the photography program LightRoom, which is going to be something of a problem to replace as I'm rather heavily invested in its workflow. On occasion I use PhotoShop, but it's such a light use that practically anything else will work.
I currently have Crunchbang plus plus on an Asus laptop and occasional power management issues aside with sleep, it's running great and the minimalist Openbox DE is just fantastic. My main workstation is a Dell Precision T7610 with twin Xeons, and AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 GFX card, waaaay too many SAS drives on Dell's RAID card a LSI SAS2 2308, a pair of PCIe m.2 cards and 64GB of ECC Registered DDR3 RAM.
So really, I'm here to learn and find options when Windows "9"...Windows 8.1 embedded Industry Pro with a Windows 7 GUI, goes out of support in a few years, but I'd rather not be caught off guard when that times rolls around.
Cheers!
NB