maddog1138

Always keep backups of your photos/work. My laptop drive died recently, taking with it probably six months worth of photos. Crap.

So I finally switched full time to running Linux.  New system is Debian stable/testing with a hint of unstable distros.  :D I've also upgraded my display to dual screen, much nicer for working on photos and pictures:  :thumb71996879: Gimp is configured, so is Inkscape... I just need to finish setup for the tablet and I'll be all set......

Computer died. It was limping along for about a week or so... I should have probably paid it more attention. Then it started booting up and shutting down on it's own.  That should have been a dead give away. Yesterday it made some funny noise, and 'poof' it gave up the ghost. Looks like the OS hard drive crapped out.  Good thing all my photos are on a secondary disk, all 80 Gig. I'm thinking real hard about getting a Raid array now... Can't afford to lose all my work... So until the PC is fixed, no photos, no drawings, no fun.  I'll just go back to lurking around dA.