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I use Lightroom in VirtualBox which seems to work ok for me (I don't really do that much fiddling with the photos though). The photos are actually stored on my Linux filesystem and provided to Windows via VirtualBox's file sharing feature. And then I just rsync the photos to a backup computer.
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Windows has been a viable platform for software development since always. I have been developing Windows software since Windows 3.1 and my first UNIX was Xenix, followed by DG/UX, Aix and many other variants. Windows is perfectly viable developer OS for C++, Delphi, Tcl/TK, Perl, Python, Java and .NET developers. Microsoft did a mistake not following up on Windows NT POSIX support, because that is what many care abou…
> GNU/Windows I LOL'ed.
That's crazy.
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Just do a samba share from the Linux vm to windows
It's not a VM, it's like the inverse of WINE... it's a compatibility layer... and that one piece (not being able to edit files in the LSW from windows/gui) is what keeps me off of it.
Well, if you think water cooling is cool, try passive cooling. A few years back I build my current PC: - Core i7-4770S (Haswell, so you see its not that new anymore) - 32GB RAM - SSD 840 EVO 1TB (not that new either) - some passive PSU Last year I added an - AMD Radeon 460 So the whole thing is completely passively cooled. So no noise at all and I am pretty happy with the performance. I don't know what 'instant' perf…
Passively cooling 65W TDP?
Actually, I bought the CPU, mainboard and cooler assembled together from mifcom, so they did the testing that everything runs stable and smooth.
Just looked up some other details:
- Mainboard: ASUS Z87-Deluxe
- Case: Xigmatek - Asgard Pro
- PSU: 500W - FSP Aurum Xilenser
- CPU Cooler: Thermalright Macho HR-02 passive [1]
As you can see that cooler is pretty big. The case isn't too fancy but it does the job and venting slots on the upper side. Interestingly dust doesn't seem to be a problem, in fact I never had so little dust in any previous pc.
[1]: http://media.bestofmicro.com/N/G/460924/gallery/Thermalright...
[2]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Xigmatek+-+Asgard+Pro&t=ffab&iax=i...
I can't imagine spending $6000 on a computer for editing photos and then saying "It also means I don't plan to buy and meticulously use a color calibration device". My computer might not be half as fast, but at least I know my blues are the shade of blue I think they are.
For $6000 he could have got something like: CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2637v4, 3.5GHz (4-Core, dual threaded, HT, 15MB Cache, 135W) 14nm RAM: 128GB (8 x 16GB DDR4-2400 ECC Registered 2R 1.2V DIMMs) Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro P4000 GPU, 8GB GDDR5, 105W, Single-Width, PCIe 3.0 x16, Seagate 1TB Exos 7E2 HDD (6 Gb/s, 7.2K RPM, 128MB Cache, 512n) 3.5-in SATA just a quick build i did over at Silicon Mechanics
Overall, with your Silicon Mechanics build they'd probably be closer to a $8000 build. On top of that, a P4000 is pretty much a beefed up GTX1060, which gets smoked by a GTX1080TI if one is going for GPU performance. They're not really comparable builds.
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You can do whatever you want with Windows. Even after tweaking dozens of settings on my Mac, I still don’t like it.
Can you see the time with a fullscreen video without having to minimize the video yet?
Here's one way to do it with AutoHotKey - https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/23879-always-on-top-clock...
I can't imagine spending $6000 on a computer for editing photos and then saying "It also means I don't plan to buy and meticulously use a color calibration device". My computer might not be half as fast, but at least I know my blues are the shade of blue I think they are.
If the manufacturer doesn't discontinue software updates for your latest OS the sensors in the devices themselves seem to use fairly cheap plastic which is susceptible to colouration over time causing the calibration's to drift quite significantly.
It might be more cost effective to just have someone calibrate your equipment for you rather than buying another plastic baubel with questionable longevity.
I use Lightroom in VirtualBox which seems to work ok for me (I don't really do that much fiddling with the photos though). The photos are actually stored on my Linux filesystem and provided to Windows via VirtualBox's file sharing feature. And then I just rsync the photos to a backup computer.
How's performance on that, have you compared with plain Windows or wine?
I don't do anything that intensive though, just brightening images and tagging which seems to work fine for me.
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UAC limits software to user privileges, even if you're running an administrator account. If you're running an administrator account, you just click YES in a popup to grant elevated privileges when they're requested. If you're running a user account, you enter an administrator password. Disabling UAC lets anything you run use administrator privileges without alerting you. Similar to running a Linux box as root. It's a…
It may be stupid depending on what you are doing, and how savvy a user you are. The problem with UAC is that 90% of users have no idea when it would be necessay to click "no" when that dialog box shows up. For them, it's the box that always annoys you and you have to just click "yes" to make it go away. I understand what it's supposed to do, but have had it disabled since it was released, and have saved hours of task…
I strongly disagree with that caveat. As a savvy user, UAC behaves like a burglar alarm for me. I am not savvy enough to open a 7z, PDF, JPG or DOCX in a hex editor and determine whether it contains an exploit. Even if I were alone on the planet due to the ability to do so, I wouldn't have the time to do anything else. Because I have UAC enabled, if I open a zip file and get a UAC prompt I know that something is fishy.
There are known unknowns and your savvy is perfectly suitable for that; however, your savvy won't help at all for the unknown unknowns. Double-clicking an .exe isn't the only way to get pwnd.
> you have to just click "yes" to make it go away.
Exactly, UAC doesn't really work for non-savvy users. In which case, who is the target audience?
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Can you see the time with a fullscreen video without having to minimize the video yet?
I didn't downvote you, but there are dozens of utilities to do this. Here's one way to do it with AutoHotKey - https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/23879-always-on-top-clock...
It's in the taskbar, they have functionality to show / hide the taskbar, they should combine the two.
