which also have the advantage that you don't pay a fortune for and don't need to subscribe to etc like with your professional tool set. Your main machine obviously has all your professional, paid for software, but of course systems like linux Mint offer a great deal more experiences of excellent apps dealing in things like 3D art and design, music making, word processing etc, Persistent USB sticks offer a great alternative to having a dual boot system where disk space on your machine might be limited to 128 Gig or whatever. Everyone is wanting something to complement their main operating system - usually os X on a Mac book air or something.
