Ok, so I'm on my third 'try' of Linux having originally tried Mandrake
way back (too much like hard work) and Ubuntu (had a problem with IPv6).
I'm studying the Open University's Linux course (T155) on a laptop running Vista. My usual OS is XP, but
that's upstairs and after spending 6.5 years studying for my OU degree on
it (finished a couple of years ago), hidden away from life, I decided
I'd do T155 on the laptop downstairs.<br><br>And... Vista is just awful.
How did it get through MS quality testing? It makes me angry when I use
it!<br><br>I've been running Ubuntu in Virtual Box for T155, but I've
just installed it to its own partition
to get a nicer Linux experience. The reason for posting is that I'm
quite tempted to go the whole hog and drop Vista altogether. However,
there are some applications which I'd still need to use. These are Adobe
Photoshop Elements (for cataloging my photos) and Acronis Online
Backup.<br><br>So the question is, do I dump Vista and try and get these
to run in Wine, or keep a small Windows partition?<br><br>The other
alternative is to find Linux software that does the same job. I know
there is a beta version of Google Picasa for Linux - does anyone know if
it's possible to transfer tags from Elements to Picasa?<br><br>Regarding
Acronis Online Backup, this is used to backup photos, music, documents
etc. These are held on an external NTFS drive. Is it possible for Ubuntu
to use this disk? If so, I could just find another FTP
based online storage provider and use Linux FTP software.<br><br>Any
help/thoughts most welcome.<br><br>Barry<div style="visibility: hidden; display: inline;" id="avg_ls_inline_popup"></div><style type="text/css">#avg_ls_inline_popup { position:absolute; z-index:9999; padding: 0px 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; width: 240px; overflow: hidden; word-wrap: break-word; color: black; font-size: 10px; text-align: left; line-height: 13px;}</style>