Have looked at dual boot before but it seemed like a ( admittedly fairly minor) pita. File sharing/ access across both systems is my main concern. Thanks for your response.

Nice, i will take a look at this. With virtualization are both OS able to share files/ access the same files?

In line with many folks’ suggestions here, I’m ALL for switching to Linux full time after playing around with a few distros… BUT, I use dxo Photolab for photo editing which doesn’t run on Linux, yes, even through wine etc.

Also yes, I know the are a bunch of great Foss alternatives. I’ve tried them all. Nothing touches the results from my current program unfortunately.

I would be stoked if anyone could enlighten me as to how I could get that working.

plus 1 for Vivaldi. No complaints here.

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Thank you. This is far more coherent than what i wrote. I’m tired of seeing conversations shutdown or railroaded by people crying whataboutism.

Nah, this is just how a conversation works IRL. Points, counterpoints.

All parties just agreeing with each other staying on the same point is not a conversation.

Making a counterpoint can hardly be considered derailing the conversation .