Thanks.

Generally speaking I tend to just leave the C: drive for utilities and use external drives for data, as much as possible. I understand that Linux handles files and stuff somewhat differently, but that would still generally be my plan.

No harm in trying, right?

Thanks.

Cachy is what I’mgoing to try first. I’m semi-resolved to dual-booting for the video/photo stuff.

I’ve also got a vague plan at some point in the future to buy a desktop mac and one of those boxes where you can just switch monitors/input device routing at the press of a button. Maybe put the video/photo stuff on that. Although, that said, I’ve got a colleage who is a graphic designer on the side and the only reason he’s got a Windows machine is that even the biggest mac he owns can’t handle the graphics. He’s an Apple evangelist yet even he says that Apple does not do graphics well.

The stuff I do is nothing like the stuff he does and I don’t need anything as powerful as him, but I am still aware that “get a mac to do video stuff” isn’t necessarily the best plan. But I’m likely getting one anyway for other reasons, so it can’t hurt to try.

Thanks. The consensus seems to be Cachy, so that’s what I’m trying first.

Thanks. I think I’m going to start with trying Cachy.

Thank you. Cachy OS seems to be the majority suggestion, and that’s Arch.

Thank you.

Thank you. The consensus seems to be Cachy OS, so I’m going to give that a go.

Thank you

Reaper is the GOAT

I generally agree with you, but in this case if you don’t know what a DAW is then you’re probably not qualified to recommend one.

It stands for digital audio workstation, and is used for all aspects of music production.

One thing that GIMP was always far superior on was cutting people out from single-colour backgrounds. All kinds of hassle on any other tool, with even the simplest workflow needing a tonne of refining and touching up. With GIMP, you just select the colour & hit “color to alpha”. Done. It even gets all the tricky hair semi-transparencies.