Jesper,
I agree with your XP comments. I have Caldera Linux installed on a
PC (with Windows XP coexisting as a dual boot), and I never, ever
have any instability or driver problems.
I use Slackware Linux mostly, and I seldom have any problems
(except when I on the fly blow away the IDE drivers and try
installing alpha ones; but that's my own fault). I use a lot of
bleeding edge hardware and still find my systems to be very stable,
once configured.
Do you use Gimp or something similar for your photo post-processing?
Currently I use Gimp and for routine tasks (such as batch resizing
for web publication and thumbnails) I use ImageMagick. Gimp is
really powerful, but you need a couple of plugins to get all the
nice stuff like LAB mode. They're easy to install, and I suspect
most of them will end up in the official distribution soon.
There is also a 48 bit Gimp in the works, but i haven't tried that
yet as 24 bit has done an adequate job for me so far. If I get a
D7Hi and start shooting RAW a lot, it's time to go 48 bit to make
the most of it, but for now 24 bit gives me enough leeway.
You can download Corel PhotoPaint for Linux for free. The full
version, apparently works well, but I never tried it since Gimp
does everything very well and is snappy.
Good luck in your Linux endeavours. I switched "cold turkey" to
UNIX a few years ago, doing everything on various BSD and Linux
platforms, and there's just no going back. It was rough in the
beginning, especially back before all the fancy apps of today, but
I do not regret it. I spend much less time keeping my machine
running and more time using it than ever before.
--
Jesper
- see i'm on a mac and i'm happy, never had any problems with ANY digicam.