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Software on Linux
Q Tired of Windows, and not willing to pay over the odds for an Apple computer, I have just started using a Linux operating system on my computer. As I miss using my photo-editing software, do you have any suggestions about what I could use? Ideally, I would like to be using Lightroom or something like it.
Paul Wallace
A There are a couple of solutions. First, some people have managed to get Lightroom working on Linux using Wine, which is a program that allows some Windows software to be installed on Linux. However, getting it…