Quite a lot of software in this genre is written in such a way that it can run on a number of different platforms. I suggest that you research to see what software suits your purposes, then check with the vendor to see what their hardware/software platform requirements are.
If you really like a particular package, and really need what it can do, then it's perfectly okay to buy a machine – with the appropriate OS, whatever it may be – just to run that software. Let the software drive your decision, not the operating platform. The license-cost of the software, and perhaps the cost of the new machine, are simply costs of doing business, to be amortized against the value of what the software does for you.
Last edited by sundialsvcs; 08-29-2017 at 07:19 AM.
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