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Photoshop on WINE can be made to work, but it’s a terribly bad solution for many reasons.

May I ask the main reasons? This is probably the most important point regarding my migration to linux and I thought that Wine would be a proper solution for Photoshop.

Thanks!

LightDM says it’s a Display Manager.

I know that naming is hard but, oh my…, terms are so confusing when you’re starting:

• Desktop Environment
• Windows Manager
• Desktop Manager
• Display Manager
• Tiling Window Manager
• Compositing Window Manager

… I’m still not sure which ones are synonyms, sub categories or independent components :/.

I’m an ultra-noob, so those who know more please correct me.

I’m playing with Linux VMs and recently I installed Debian to check it out. When it asked what DE I wanted, I chose all of them :).

The only hard conflict (AFAIK) is the [compontent / feature responsible for loging in] (I don’t know the technical term). Because each DE comes with a different one, you need to choose one.

What I found very confusing in practice is that I could see some DE apps and configuration settings from other DEs. So, unless you know what belongs to what, it’s a bit of a mess (in my VERY limited experience).

Oooh… I see. I didn’t understand how broad the Desktop Env really are. Is not that they manage “a lot of things regarding the desktop and windows”… is just like a bundle of apps.

Now it’s starting to sound like a sub-distro inside the distros, but I think this is a good point to stop bothering you. Thanks again!

So, just to check I understood:

• “[Tiling] Window Managers” are a very specific tool.
• “Desktop Environments” are broader tools that (may?) contain Window Managers.

Now… the next questions (if you have the patience :P) are:

• is is possible to use a Window Manager without a Desktop Environment?
• how does this influence your choose for the terminal emulator? Ó_ò

Thanks for the answers!

Sorry for the off-topic question, but I’m still trying to wrap my head around basic linux concepts: you use “tiling window manager” and “desktop environment” as if they were mutually exclusive options. What’s the relationship between them?

Thanks!

Oh, sorry, I didn’t link the 2 parts of your comment.

Yeah, RaspberryPi-alike stuff if also something I want to look into in the future. But it is probably best to take it one step at a time.

Thanks for the ideas!

Thanks for the suggestions.

Do you know if there is any reason to prefer Virtualbox over Hyper-V?

Thanks for the answer!

May I ask you how do you balance resources (mainly RAM) between Windows and Linux?

Depending on your specs, you may want to go lighter (…)

Good point regarding balancing hardware resources.

Windows VM on linux is painfully slow and doesn’t have a license, so it’s much less good than linux VM on Windows IMO.

Good to know.

Thanks!

Interesting suggestion, I’ll think about it.

The only program that I’m aware I need Windows for is Photoshop (I don’t know if Wine is an option or if that counts as "Windows).

So you’re probably right. The main reason I prefer to start with VMs is to try a few distributions before committing to one of them… and the laziness I get thinking about how to migrate my current Windows installation to a VM… or (even worse) reinstalling Windows from scratch :P.

Thanks!

Thank you very much, it seems I’m on the a right path.

Thank you very much for the in-depth answers. It makes a lot of sense

I’m happy to say that most of the problems won’t probably apply to me. I have a laptop with no dedicated GPU and I don’t play high end games, so I think there will be no problem with that.

Is that a good idea?

If you keep in mind that it won’t 100 % behave like a “proper” installation when things go weird it’s fine.

It’s probably impossible to list all the possible differences, but do you know what are the most common ones?

Thanks again!

Do you know of any advantage of using VirtualBox over Hyper-V?

I tried dual booting in the past. The main problem is that I’m too lazy to reboot every time I want to try something in linux and I end up not using it :/.

I hope that with VMs I can have a smoother transition being able to work with both of them at the same time.

I should have added that… thanks for the suggestion.

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