https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3279&p=39823#p39823
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Tormie
Monday, 09 June 2008, 06:59 PM

Re: Poser and Linux ?!?
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Look, I was addicted to linux from long ago starting with a Slackware distribution, compiling kernels etc. It is a top OS. Problem is the lack of applications and that it is not exactly easy, even if now it's easier.

I've a simple suggestion: for now make a couple of partitions on your HD, one for linux (actually it needs 2 partitions, one linux and the other one swap, so you need three), the other one for Window$, or buy another hard disk and switch from one to another at the boot (my bios allows it clicking F8). This is what you need while you practice with linux. If you like it enough and expertise, nothing is impossible. But if you're lazy ( :redface: ) sooner or later you'll go back to Bill Gate$. 

Basically... Why run Poser under an emulation ? Just keep a partition with a simple XP with the programs that doesn't work under linux and the other one for linux.

There is another alternative that is a Mac, but it involves a lot of money to buy an Apple... I'm tempted by it (leahman pushes a lot :roll: ) but I've no money for one of it...

BTW I think that at Micro$oft they made a big mistake with Vista, it has a permissions system that is a bad copy of the one of Linux, you have to give a command like the "su root" everytime to make the programs run or install, that can be good if the user is not the common user, because it become too much complicated . So there are a lot of people who downgrade to XP even on system that not even have the drivers for XP, that was the case of my brother's notebook. I had to dig hell to make it work under XP because Vista sucked...