New User in Florida

[Douglife]

Whats going on Florida!? I've been using Vista since it's release, and got tired of it. So I searched, and found Ubuntu. And I love it. I'm a graphic designer so I don't use it on my main, but every other PC I own runs it.

[mlsquad]

You should check out Gimp and InkScape. Gimp comes with Ubuntu at Applications->Graphics->Gimp Image Editor. It is like Photoshop, but the tools are called other things and are arranged differently. It doesn't do everything Photoshop does, but it does the vast majority of it. Inkscape can be installed using Synaptic at System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager.
I don't know if these two tools meet your business needs or not, but you should definitely give them a spin. They are both available for Windows as well, so if you like them then you can also use them on any Windows machines you must use.
Linux does not yet support CMYK, so if that is important to you then Windows will definitely be a requirement until then. It is my understanding that it is being worked on.

[Douglife]

I see. I've played with Gimp a bit. Actually, I just ran into a Moderator's Launchpad and found out about Kubuntu, which I have just installed. I like this alot, any recommendations on these plasmoids? CMYK is important depending on the job of course, but sooner or later I'd like to work on 1 OS, instead of 3. Of course thats a personal choice. :lolflag:

Nice to meet you all.

[mlsquad]

I see. I've played with Gimp a bit. Actually, I just ran into a Moderator's Launchpad and found out about Kubuntu, which I have just installed. I like this alot, any recommendations on these plasmoids? CMYK is important depending on the job of course, but sooner or later I'd like to work on 1 OS, instead of 3. Of course thats a personal choice. :lolflag:

Nice to meet you all.

I have tried Kubuntu off and on. My first introduction to graphics Linux was Suse running KDE. When I checked out Gnome I never looked back.
KDE3 includes many vast improvements, even though I haven't really given it a fair shake, I still prefer Gnome.

At my job, I'm a programmer, I have a dual-monitor setup with Windows on the left and Ubuntu on the right. This is by personal preference. I would love it if I could just run Ubuntu but there are some apps that I need Windows to run, but many things are so much easier in Ubuntu that it is worth it to have multiple OSes. It just depends on the work at hand.