https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3279&p=39828#p39828
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rayera
Tuesday, 10 June 2008, 01:13 AM

Re: Poser and Linux ?!?
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Some years ago a job mate pushed me to use linux, since then I always had Windows and linux installed in my PC, it saved me a lot of time and head pain when my windows crashed and from linux I was able to go on using my PC while slowly doing the back up ( slowly because I'm lazy and don't like to back up anything  :redface: the last time was a month  :uuh: ) to reinstall windows, and I felt absolutely comfortable with it. I use Ubuntu that's absolutely easy to use and all programs you need are in repositories in the web so you don't have to go thru the process of installation, just chose your application and everything goes where it have to go, you don't like it, just go that program and it unistall without problems or conflicts, as far as I know linux doesn't need drefragmentation, something I hate to do too. mainly because after doing it a couple of time I've lost some data,  :snooty:  in windows.

In Ubuntu I instaled an "emulator" (they say it's not an emulator at all) called WINE, and under this I was able to run Daz $tudio ($ learned from Tormie, I like  it  :)  ) and Poser 7 without problems, with poser 7 rendering even faster.

Blender works fantastic in Ubuntu, faster and smoother , but as Tormie say, one can never escape to Bill Gate$, I know people that use just linux, but for me there is always something that make me reinstall Window$, but for sure I'll always have a Linux installed in my PC.

If you want to start your Linux experience I'd recommend you to start with Ubuntu, this came with an graphic interface called Genome very similar to the Mac OS, if you want something like Windows there is Kubuntu with a graphic interface called KDE with a more Windows feeling. If you are a Customization fan there are a lot to customize in both of this Graphic interface (by the way, in Linux language this interfaces all called The X) that I find by far more attractive and visually beautiful than windows, and if all customization is not enough then you can install something that was called Beryl, I don't remember the actual name, that use OpenGL to add an infinity of amazing effects to the interface pure eye candy... but I think I went out of topic  :redface: 

For short I recommend you installing Linux and Windows and starting slowly to use it, somehow you'll find it deserve to be installed, I don't know much about the technical advantages of using Linux, but I can tell you a lot of practical advantages of using Ubuntu by now as a helper, maybe in a no so distance future as my main OS.