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Last post Author Topic: Are you a hardcore software fanatic or a poseur?  (Read 13715 times)

Lashiec

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Re: Are you a hardcore software fanatic or a poseur?
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2007, 03:55 PM »
J-Mac, you look like you need a virtual machine for all that testing. It would save you some time of cleaning hassle ;)

J-Mac

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Re: Are you a hardcore software fanatic or a poseur?
« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2007, 12:59 AM »
J-Mac, you look like you need a virtual machine for all that testing. It would save you some time of cleaning hassle ;)
Recently did just that!   :)

However I would still have quite a few apps installed.  E.g., I have about a dozen different graphics/digital photo applications.  Some overlap features, and when I finally admit that I am not using one hardly at all, I uninstall it. But I do use most for different functions.

When I had this PC built, I had four drives installed in it, dual processors, a bevy of optical drives, etc. I became disabled/virtually housebound a little over two years ago and so a lot of my time is spent on new-found interests: digital photo and video authoring and editing. Lotsa tools for that!

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Re: Are you a hardcore software fanatic or a poseur?
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2007, 11:29 AM »
Man, I'm down to 62 apps, and that includes over a dozen redundancies (several text editors, image editors, and three IDEs.). I've been trying to do more with less lately.