Quote - Agreed.  Not a big fan of this.

I don't want my documents, nor work, on the cloud.

I don't want to rent software by the month.

The cloud is fine, IMHO, for things like a music catalog (Amazon's MP3 implementation), product delivery and the like.

But cloud software, cloud OS, etc.  You can keep that.  I'd gladly go with Gimp/Corel/etc.

 

Your right ideal for music and anything that is a 'nice to have' rather then a real must, because when you 'must' have something you can be sure at that point it won't be there.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.