Thanks.

Generally speaking I tend to just leave the C: drive for utilities and use external drives for data, as much as possible. I understand that Linux handles files and stuff somewhat differently, but that would still generally be my plan.

Yeah, that’s kind of what I’d gathered. I’ve got a few dead computers around and I’m going to take a drive out of one of those and use that for the Linux while keeping Windows on the drive it’s already on.

No harm in trying, right?

Thank you.

Cachy is what I’mgoing to try first. I’m semi-resolved to dual-booting for the video/photo stuff.

I’ve also got a vague plan at some point in the future to buy a desktop mac and one of those boxes where you can just switch monitors/input device routing at the press of a button. Maybe put the video/photo stuff on that. Although, that said, I’ve got a colleage who is a graphic designer on the side and the only reason he’s got a Windows machine is that even the biggest mac he owns can’t handle the graphics. He’s an Apple evangelist yet even he says that Apple does not do graphics well.

The stuff I do is nothing like the stuff he does and I don’t need anything as powerful as him, but I am still aware that “get a mac to do video stuff” isn’t necessarily the best plan. But I’m likely getting one anyway for other reasons, so it can’t hurt to try.

Thanks. The consensus seems to be Cachy, so that’s what I’m trying first.

Thanks. I think I’m going to start with trying Cachy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Cachy OS seems to be the majority suggestion, and that’s Arch.

Thank you. The consensus seems to be Cachy OS, so I’m going to give that a go.

Thank you

I’ve never noticed this. Mostly because I basically never close Task Manager. Because programs hanging is common enough that it’s actually useful to have Task Manager open on a separate screen.

On an unrelated note, I must set myself a reminder for tomorrow to give installing Linux another go…

Reaper is the GOAT

I generally agree with you, but in this case if you don’t know what a DAW is then you’re probably not qualified to recommend one.

It stands for digital audio workstation, and is used for all aspects of music production.

I’ve also seen it said by people who know more about this kind of thing than i do that because they’re relatively rare forks like librewolf actually make identifying individual users easier than if you were using vanilla Firefox

FWIW, the last time Apple released a new product with the prefix “i” was the iPad in 2010. They favour “Apple” now, as in “Apple Watch”, “Apple TV”, and “Apple Vision Pro”.

They found that you can’t copyright/trademark “i” as a prefix in and of itself. That means that while nobody else can bring out a product called “iPhone” or “iPod”, they absolutely can bring out a product called, say, “iLaptop”. And that’s what people did for all kinds of products, hoping that people would buy them, mistakenly thinking they were Apple products.

So Apple abandoned it as branding on everything that wasn’t already well-known for that branding.

Your point is right in spirit, but wrong on that one specific point.

One thing that GIMP was always far superior on was cutting people out from single-colour backgrounds. All kinds of hassle on any other tool, with even the simplest workflow needing a tonne of refining and touching up. With GIMP, you just select the colour & hit “color to alpha”. Done. It even gets all the tricky hair semi-transparencies.

Why is it denoted by a smiley face, rather than „Ah“?