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  • BEDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In line with many folks’ suggestions here, I’m ALL for switching to Linux full time after playing around with a few distros… BUT, I use dxo Photolab for photo editing which doesn’t run on Linux, yes, even through wine etc.

    Also yes, I know the are a bunch of great Foss alternatives. I’ve tried them all. Nothing touches the results from my current program unfortunately.

    I would be stoked if anyone could enlighten me as to how I could get that working.

    • HERRAX@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I can highly recommend either using windows as a VM in virtualbox, or simply dual boot. I’m using Linux 99% of the time, but I still boot into windows occasionally for some firmware updates or software that does not work with Linux.

      • BEDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Have looked at dual boot before but it seemed like a ( admittedly fairly minor) pita. File sharing/ access across both systems is my main concern. Thanks for your response.

        • Black616Angel@feddit.deEnglish
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          1 year ago

          File access across systems is no problem.

          It just has to be a separate partition either in the form of a whole SSD/HDD or as a partition on your main drive. Just make it NTFS (a file system that all those OSes know) it works with both windows and linux. I still have 3 NTFS partitions from my dual-boot days.