I want to replace windows....

waynesurvey

...but not sure what to replace it with.

I'm sick of windows, and I seem to have a virus that won't go away despite wiping the hard drive and re-installing XP.

Is there any way to run Mac OSX on the computer, or is the chip set up to only allow windows products? I wouldn't mind trying Linux or Unix, as they seem to be visually easier to work with than ever before. My only issue really is that we have Photoshop (legit version) which I think will only run on XP, and I don't want to have to fork out for a different version of it.

All other software I want to use should be fine on Linux (I'm using OpenOffice and Mozilla on the XP anway, prefer them to the MS products).

Are there any issues with say printer drivers and the like? Are Linux versions available so that I can still use my peripherals?

Is there any consensus on what the best replacement for XP is? Based on the fact that I'm not interested in programming, it's the most end-user-friendly OS that I'm after.

Thanks.

The_Thing

Check out http://distrowatch.com/

One of my favourite distros is Linux Mint which is basically a re-spin of Ubuntu with more functionality out of the box -> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint

Another distro I dabble with from time to time is Mandriva -> http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandriva

Unles you are using every last feature available to you in Photoshop then maybe you could get by with using the GIMP which is installed by default on both of the distros above. http://www.gimp.org/

For more generalised Linux info you might also have a look at:

http://www.tuxradar.com/

http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/

Khannie

I think you've opened enough threads on this.