ProtocolZero posted at 8:52AM Fri, 19 July 2019 - #4357399

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 6:52PM Thu, 18 July 2019 - #4357313

I have only one thing to say about this "opensource like Linux!!!!!!" debacle, which is what runs down to most computer users who might be knowledgeable enough to use Linux but won't:

Most people wouldn't want to buy car parts and assemble their own car either. We want that car ready to be used, thanks.

You do realize that most open-sourced software is distributed not only as source code, but also as executables, right? Go to Blender.org right now, and you can get Blender in the format of your choice. Same with Linux, or GIMP, or Krita, or MAME, or any one of dozens of different open-sourced projects. No one is forced to have to recompile the source code. Why would an open-sourced Poser be any different?

Sigh.

I'll give this conversation one more attempt before I boot myself out for your insistence in treating me like a complete idiot when it comes to computer matters.

Yes, of COURSE I know they come in executables. I also know that:

-Linux requires you to be savvy anyway because you need to go looking for drivers, alternatives for industry-standard programs, sometimes there's no function that you need and you need to actually program it anyway, even though the CORE is there as a nifty executable (so cool, the car comes with the motor and wheels assembled but you still need to add the seats and cover and glasses and--);

-GIMP or Krita or whatever require you to learn entirely new functions when you're used to things like Photoshop, and chances are that they won't be able to open a .psd file your customer sent you because they used a whatever function only Photoshop has;

-Blender has several different executables other than the "official" one, and if we were going to do that with Poser, imagine this scenario: casual user wants to do a thing in Poser. Someone tells them that Poser doesn't do it, but UltraPoser by TechyRando can do it. Casual user downloads UltraPoser by TechyRando, only to discover that UltraPoser can't render in Superfly, and then casual user goes to bug Renderosity because "Poser is not working" because casual user didn't quite understand that they're using a different version of Poser and then it takes them 3 days and 15 back-and-forth tech support messages before Renderosity finally realizes that Casual User wasn't actually using the official Poser executable.

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Feel free to call me Ohki!

Poser Pro 11, Poser 12 and Poser 13, Windows 10, Superfly junkie. My units are milimeters.

Persephone (the computer): AMD Ryzen 9 5900x, RTX 3070 GPU, 96gb ram.