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For replacing Lightroom, either Darktable or Rawtehrapee. Darktable should should look familiar to you. As for Photoshop, try GIMP.

The VLC player is a reliable --albeit weird looking-- alternative, should you need it. Also: @Austinian @JesterTheClown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT13kk8HDDo

Why not? You made them. They are your creations, a product of your mind. I doubt that. Maybe you should look for photographers in different places. If it is a joke, what sense is in displaying ...

Just for fun, I would repeat that story to people that busy themselves fixing Windows machines, and then describe the expression on their faces.

Not a basher, I am laughing at this situation. Also, I tried, and yes, I did it!

A basher bashing a basher. You are funny.

-Sounds like a long update. Leave the computer to work some time, then check again. -Do not play around so lightly with restore points. Dig down a considerable amount before you use that feature, ...

I learnt to use Arch by trial, error and annotation. It was very painful. Perhaps I should have looked for a proper introduction.

Q&A session with Linus Torvalds: Why is Linux not competitive on desktop?

Meaning?

The device you are asking for is called Arsenal, and has been described as a complete murderer of the photographic art and process. No machine can guess what a person's photographic desire is, ...

I'll bite. This was not the case for me. I have spent a long time learning Windows. My final conclusion is that Windows' innards are complicated for no reason, and repairs have a limited reach. Upd ...

Mate, you are talking about REALLY bored people. Both posters and "likers" or whatever. Just move on. There are better things you can use to burn your time in my opinion.

Just grab your raw processor, open one file, flip the image to your liking, then copy the processing profile to all the other pictures. You'll duplicate them all, but it's fast.

Get an external hard-drive.

Yes, but performance will likely be not great. You'll need to have a little patience.

Windows' color manager is inside the advanced display settings. It lets you choose general color settings, as well as ICC profiles for color-manageable device. It exists at least since Windows 7 I ...

Correct. Mixed up the terms. Apologies.

Historically, all GPU manufacturers have enabled 10-bit output only on "professional" grade cards, such as AMD's FirePro and nVidia's Quadro (I think Intel's implementation was "Iris Pro", but I ...

I wrote quality, not processing performance.