User Feedback :: Please help me out !



Dear people at DSL!

First of all let me introduce myself,
Im jeffrey from the netherlands, 14 years old.

I just burned DSL and booted it up ! :)
woooowww.. COOOL MAN!!! AWESOME!!
only some things!,

iam a photoshopper, and i would like to know if i will be able to use photoshop or any other windows applications on DSL,
Because this is the only guestion holding me back from installing this as my standard/single OS, instead of now having win XP installed and using DSL via a Disc,

Also, would i be able to run my games too ? like Counter-strike for example,
or something like Halo, if you will..

please explain to me in understandable language for a beginner :),
like: you have to open up ### witch is located at ###,
not like: Yo man open that program and typz0rs he0xoloalos

lol, hope you understand me :),
Tnx already for the help i really really appreciate!
Greetings, Pimpes, Hope to get a reply soon :)

PS: if you really want to help me ? add me on msn so i can ask virtually if you will,   pimpes@live.nl
If you want to use those programs, I suggest you keep XP on there and run DSL as a LiveCD.  

You can run Photoshop in DSL.  But it's a Windows program so it isn't really designed to be run in Linux.  You go to MyDSL on the desktop.  Go to System and then get the Wine extension.

Once that's added, use the device mounting tool on the desktop to mount the computer's harddrive.  Then you can open a command prompt, navigate to the folder that Photoshop is installed into and type:

wine Photoshp.exe

I run Photoshop 5.0 this way all the time.  In Windows I added the Photoshop 6.0 upgrade, but I can't run Photoshop 6.0 using Wine in DSL.  It fails to start.  I never tried to solve why, because Photoshop 5 worked and that's enough for the necessary usage.

The games probably aren't going to work this way.  I never tried them but my guess is the fact that they access 3D acceleration hardware is going to make them harder to run, if they even can be.

Personally, I don't think you need to replace Windows XP with DSL.  It sounds liek you'll still be needing to go to XP to do things so you might as well leave it there.  You can still access the harddrive and save stuff to it and open stuff from it in DSL even if it's running off the CD.  And if you have  256 MB ram or more, you can just boot DSL with the "toram" option and the performance is going to be amazing.
Tnx for the reply, but uhm, if i do things from the live CD,
when i reboot its all gone! :(...
and i cannot save files good way, i mean how i use my own hard drive ? without mounting it i mean.
see backup/restore on the local startup documentation that first pops up under dillo.

you'll need to mount something if you want to use your hdd.
thank you man :)
i really appreciate the help because i really like DSl..:),
so hope i can find things out now im now going to lookup the info from backup/restore tnx


Edit:   Damn! i cant seem to get it to work, what i want do to is create a new folder on my own mounted HD and make a new map where i store all the linux files,
when i try to download a file to the for example:  hdb1/linux map, it gives an error when finished download it says:   "  Please mount media containing optional dir and try again  "    but i'fe mounted my hdb1 already!

i really want to get this to work so i can finally poke around DLS a little bit without rebooting and losing everything every time,
tnx already -. pimpes
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