Quote - Have no desire to run Vista myself, in fact once I get a bit further along I'm hoping to be able to dump windows on my primary machine entirely.  I'm currently running Win XP Pro x64 only because I have to to run Poser properly.

I've tried Poser running under wine on various Linux boxes and just can't get a satisfactory result, however once I get a bit further along with the open source replacement I'm working on I'm hoping to be able to dump windows entirely and switch over to Linux on my primary machine.

I like a lot of windows apps, but as for the OS itself, never really been much of a fan.  Way to much of a resource pig for what it does.

I am currently running Poser 7 in Ubuntu 8.04 / Wine 1.0. It's not as smooth or quick as in WindowsXP, but the upside is that now I never get the "Poser has generated a critical error and must be shut down" screen either, so I can actually finish what I started. Still, I do dual-boot WinXP and Linux for those occasional apps which are getting less and less.

From what I've seen of Vista, it's not very intuitive, especially for those coming from XP. Why would Microsoft painstakingly "train" a user-base to do things one way for years and years, then arbitrarily simply change how things work, confusing everyone, affecting productivity... what a mess! Office is a case in point. OpenOffice.org acts more like the Office we know and love: who wants to change just for the sake of changing?

I will never buy Vista. I have ethical and philosophical reasons, but mostly, financial reasons. Costs too bloody much!

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks