Tek wrote:
> 
> I guess my biggest problem is I don't know how I'm going to use it. I 
> suspect what I want is to switch to linux for rendering and text editing pov 
> files, and use windows for everything else. But of course if I get a distro 
> of linux which gives me a nice way to do regular computing then I might use 
> it exclusively and leave windows alone. I don't know what I want to use it 
> for and I don't know how to figure that out except by talking to people who 
> already use linux for pov.
> 

More on that, you will want to use it for normal websurfing etc while
poving. Or do you say that you've never surfed to find some answer for a
prob while POVing? Eg. for me, reading POV online manual is pretty
normal while POVing :).

And when your computer is calculating The Big Image, you might want to
do something while it's doing it(1). Eg. you could dig your way deeper
and deeper of Linux-knowledge ;).

Finally, I'd guess you don't want to get the reboot-delay every time you
want to do something else, if it's possible on the currently running
system. So I'd say, go for a usable desktop, that's what you'll most
propably want someday.

(1) 124:45:15 Rendering line 295 of 5200, 24901 rad. samples

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