Vista or Ubuntu...Help me choose...

[.Kencs]

I like Windows as you can get a lot of programs to work with it, but I use MSN Messenger and Photoshop a lot, can these be used with Ubuntu?
I want to completely get rid of Windows, ONLY if Photoshop and MSN will work to Ubuntu.

Also, has anyone tried Linux Mint yet? If so, what's it like?

 

[.Kencs]

I switched to ubuntu from xp about 6 months ago when i got an acer aspire one and have never looked back

As for msn there is plenty of alternatives such as nimbuzz or amsn and although ubuntu has the WINE windows compatibility layer and will run photoshop i'd recommend using VMware or Sun virtual box to run xp as a virtual machine for photoshop

regards

Thanks mate...I'll stick to my Dual-Boot for the time being

 

[.Kencs]

I would also recommend just using ubuntu with pidgin for msn. Pidgin is superior in many ways. Then instead of dual booting use virtualbox to run windows, virtualbox runs flawlessy I use it exclusively for Photoshop and Microsoft office. It's super fast, no restarting and as some have said it will just be like you are running a native install.

One other feature that is neat with virtualbox is that you can then simply keep a copy of the virtual machine image file (like an iso file) and if you ever get a new computer or reformat you just import that file to virtualbox on your new computer and your at the same place you left off and don't have to spend the good part of a day installing windows from scratch. It's a feature I have used several times

Thanks

I went to the Pidgin site, followed what it said on their, and entered the commands into Terminal, it said it has finished, I then had to run an Update, I did that, it found some update for Pidgin, I installed updates but can not find Pidgin anywhere on my system :/

 

[.Kencs]

It said it wasn't installed, yet I did it 3 times.

I put in the install command line you suggested and it works fine How comes Linux relies on command lines for everything? Can't they make things simple lol...

Also, has anyone heard of k3b?
I have looked at installing it but again its all this long winded coding, which I don't fully understand. Is there a command line that will do it all for you?

 

[.Kencs]

Linux Mint 8...Anyone got it? What do people think?