I have been playing with 3D for close to 14 years, so a real new boy compared with some.  I started with Daz for a few years and moved to Poser when Poser 5 was around.  Since then I have moved through Poser 6, 7, 8, 2010, 2012 and now 2014 so I have been using it for some time.  For this reason I cannot really speak for the more recent versions of Daz Studio.  I did try version 3 and 4 but like some others it would either not load or was unstable on my machine.  In fairness I did not work very hard at getting it to work as, with Poser already running I had more fun rendering than trying to get software to work.

Having said all that, I would still recommend you try it Daz and see if it is for you, it is free afterall.  If you are new to 3D much of what you learn with Daz will not be wasted even if you do change programs as figures, poses and other aspects are much the same in both programs certainly if you do not include Genesis where the difference between Daz and Poser does begin to appear.

Finally, this is a great forum full of helpful people but, like me they have their own likes and dislikes, which may colour their judgement.  That is the reason that I gave some background so you can at least see where my bias may be for, despite efforts to be even handed, there will be some bias but I can only say it is not intentional.  Use the software you become happy with and have fun, I wish you luck

 

 

 

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.