As part of my career and hobbies, I write and produce music (Reason, FL Studio, Cakewalk), render 3d animations (Maya, 3DSMax, Shade), do video production (Premiere, After Effects), imaging (PhotoShop, Draw, Painter), web site and app creation (Dreamweaver, Flash, php, asp), and general app dev (C++, VB) on an almost daily basis.
Because of the huge library of production software I need, I've used various versions of Windows as they came out. Currently XP and 2003. There's only one problem.. I really dislike Windows and I have no interest in switching to Mac. None at all. I did fall in love with LInux back in 2000, but I've had no choice but to leave it on the side due to the lack of all the software I use that's Win based.
5 years is a long time, and with high hopes I've installed LInux as a dual-boot OS on my main personal machine (and is used more than XP).
What options are availible for graphics, video, webdev, and sound? Unfortuneately, the days of using Notepad to create sites is over since we need something to tie it all together. And I've heard of Gimp, which could take care of my raster graphics needs. Does anyone have some recommendations? Is there a specific distro that would make media creation easier? Any ideas at all would be well appreciated.
