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Hi!

I’m a long time Mac user, but I want to set up a laptop or mini desktop (something not too old but powerful enough for image editing, really just for photography workflow), and try a Linux distro with FOSS tools for this purpose. I’m done with Adobe.

I’d like to scale one day to having a NAS of some kind.

I’ve experimented with Ubuntu before but it felt a little noddy, I just didn’t like it. Any recommendations? I’d like something with a decent community that would tolerate my noob questions.

Many thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve had a look through system76’ site and pop looks interesting, def a contender. Their hardware is a tad pricy. I assume like most of this the hardware is something to research carefully if you choose a distro first, compatibility, drivers, support etc.

It’s a bit of an experiment for me so I won’t be dropping a grand on some HW.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I’m using the distro on a thinkpad yoga.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just use an old PC or laptop if you have one. If not install VirtualBox and give the different distros a try. It'll run slower than if it was on actual hardware but it'll let you try the OSes until you find something that you like.