Yeah, Laurie it's all graphical now.  You can still get at the bones of it if you need to though.  I think most Windows users would like Cinnamon.  That doesn't mean the others don't have a desktop - they all do (at least all the Ubuntu-based ones), it just means that some are more windows-like and some have different ideas in there.

I'm okay with Mint + MATE and Mint + KDE.  To me, they have more options and I like getting under the hood a bit.

The really super-cool thing about most Linux distributions is that you can try them out totally before you commit to installing anything.  In other words, you can burn them to a CD and boot into that and run the distro right from the disk.  If you don't like a particular flavor, try a different one :)

@Robynsveil: I thought the big thing holding back Poser 8 and higher was the AIR/Flash library (at least under WINE).  In that case I read that you could just use Semi's Library replacement or whatnot.  I wouldn't know for sure though.

I would think that it wouldn't be all that hard to get Poser ported.  The scene is rendered in OpenGL and just about everything they have put in has been open-sourced so it's just finding the right combination of things.  I guess it's really going to rely on how much moving to Linux the overall computing world sees.  If Linux only has 1% of the market share and Mac has 7% or whatnot, we know what the priority is...

Personally, I would love to see it ported and it would certainly have me on Linux almost full-time because I have liked what I've seen.  I use LibreOffice and similar applications already and I've even installed some of the Linux apps under KDE for Windows (I'm a big fan of Kate, a notepad replacement).  The only thing I'd go back to Windows for would be the few games I do play.  I don't think Guild Wars 2 does that well under Linux. :)

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