Quote -  I have seen 3dsmax hosted in Wine and Ubuntu, but not in a production environment...

Given my experience with Poser running in both a VM and in WINE, I would have to conclude that at this point (at this stage of WINE and virtual machine's limitations), any software that requires direct access to the graphics subsystem will need to run in their native OS running on bare metal. I'm guessing what holds true for Poser would hold true for 3DSMax.

Still, good to see that Linux versions are coming along for more and more software. Competition is healthy and good for consumers. 

I run Blender in both Windows (rarely now) and Linux: on the same system, the same programme behaves quite differently in Linux vs Windows. Render times in Cycles is significantly different. Interesting (and gratifying) to see free software behaving so well. Very curious to see how the Linux version of Silo will behave. I'm firing up Fugazi's tutorials on creating dynamic cloth: he uses Silo in those examples! So, YAY! :biggrin:

ETA: just installed this - what's really impressive is that my 2.2 licence is valid! The install was clean and quick, and on this little laptop with its NVidia 230 (very early CUDA) graphics card, Silo runs beautifully. I am going to enjoy this a LOT.

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

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