Don't switch to Linux immediately

[u/ifearone]

Ladies, gentlemen and everyone in between. Everyday I see people ask about switching to Linux citing various reasons. This post aims to solve all of those questions simply.

1. Don't switch immediately. Do your own research on what distro to choose. There are tons of them and what works for one person won't necessarily work for another person.

2. After you've narrowed down your choices load up VMware or something similar and test all the distros to your hearts desire. Get a feel for a whole bunch of them. I mean it.

3. If you're still adamant about switching at this point congratulations. Get a secondary drive and dual boot. You'll see that some games and software simply dont work on Linux. If you're a gamer I'd recommend dual booting 100%.

4. If you really hate windows that much and you dont mind not playing certain games or using certain software then backup all your files and give windows the boot.

5. Welcome to linux forever.

[u/motorambler]

1. We don't care about that one app keeping you tied to Windoze. 

[u/bananadingding → u/motorambler]

I've made the jump to Darktable and PhotoGIMP for my photography work. Darktable isn't nearly why Lightroom is. However!! It's made me a better photographer, I have to take better exposed RAWs, I can't pull as much out of the lights and shadows...

[u/chick0ox → u/bananadingding]

Could you recommend something I could do photo collage with?

[u/bananadingding → u/chick0ox]

I'm glad you asked this!! I was helping someone the other day with this exact problem, Photofilmsrip. It's easy and you can add music. It can make things Ken Burns-ish if you want