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Originally Posted by Ankh
Oh, and that "ancient" OS'? If the OS is stable (and WinXP finally is), his age is completely irrelevant to the functionality provided by the Photoshop. Once WinXP is safely tucked into the virtual machine, it is very easy to cut its access to the net (use host apps instead), abandon updates and "freeze" that working setup in time.
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I know. Maybe this is exactly what I'm going to do, as Photoshop (and a good RAW convertor such as Lightroom) is the only thing for which there is absolutely NO workable alternative out there (for me) on Linux. Not yet, anyway. It is a distinct possibility that I'm going to install a virtual machine running Windows XP, fully update it, and stash it away somewhere for future use.
Should I move to Linux, then the VM will run Photoshop, version CS2 or later: I've already downloaded and stashed away the "free" CS2 version, as I don't know if Adobe will provide serials and downloads for CS5.1 after they take down the activation servers. CS2 is good enough for me. Photoshop 7 would actually be good enough. As of that version, Photoshop has everything I ever needed; I'm not a professional user.
If VirtualBox adds "scale display to aspect ratio" (something which Virtual PC 2007 could do already), then I'll be able to play all my old 2D Windows games too, and I'll be happy as a fish.
But if need be, I'll buy VMWare Workstation, which can scale the display to aspect ratio, to avoid using a second computer.