I installed Ubuntu as a test some years ago, and was quite impressed. Thanks, that's the sort of information that I was after.

The 'LTS' means 'Long Term Support', meaning it isn't the most leading, recent version, but you won't have to upgrade to some other version soon. I think the Microsoft Edge browser runs well too, a native version for Linux, on Ubuntu. There is, of course, Chromium (Chrome) too. Last spring during the lockdown then, I started watching these videos on Inkscape :Īnd installing Inkscape on Ubuntu 20.04 was as easy as on Windows, and it runs as well as on Windows. I installed this last April, a day or two after it came out, and it has run fine, and it has plenty of stable applications. There are many Linux distributions for which it is really not easy to install random software even though theoretically the software could run on them. Not all Linux distributions have prebuilt darktable packages, so in theory with a niche distribution you might have to compile it from source. although it would be theoretically possible to install all of those programs on Linux, the reality is a little different.įor example, Lightworks offers a DEB and an RPM, so beginners are pretty much limited to distributions that support those packages. I was not implying they could not be installed on other distros. The OP asked for software recommendations so I listed them. I've settled on darktable for Raw development and Lightworks for video.Ĭan't you install all those programs on about any version of Linux? You can install programs like GIMP, darktable, Rawtherapee, Lightworks, and Davinci Resolve. To me, Linux Mint is the most user-friendly and stable. I've tried about ten different flavours of Linux.

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