quietrob posted at 8:22AM Tue, 17 December 2019 - #4373589

Big Brother will not be happy with this rebellious behavior. I gave up trying to fight the wind a long time ago. Why even use Linux when every computer ships with Windows 10 and any computer with Windows 7 still can upgrade freely to Windows 10. I'm not some Windows guru. I used to be quite the rebel with my Timex Sinclair until the dang thing caught fire.

So what are your advantages?

Rebellious? Maybe it had that aspect when I first got into linux during my Computer Science studies back in mid-nineties with Slackware's very first distro. But after 25 years ... I'm forced to use Windows 10 at work and I most definately do not want one at home having a comfortable and well working environment provided by linux.

Advantages? I don't really want to get into comparing operating systems; there are much better suited forums to do that should one wish to do so.

All computers shipped with Windows 10? shrugs Where I live, I luckily have the freedom to order my rigs without operating systems from specialist stores. I do not settle for the setups that are being offered cheaply at my local supermarket. Linux is funny in that way that you can change the entire hardware, connect your old boot drive and see how it boots; no need to install everything from scratch just because your rig just changed.

The entire point of this discussion and why I replied in the first place is to counter the first posts that adamantly and quite erroneously say that Poser does not work in linux. Poser does work quite well in linux with a current stable Wine layer and it doesn't require hours of work and tinkering to get it to work any more (it used to back in the Poser 7 days).

Blackbonner's issue seem resolved and usually these threads quickly turn into ugly flamewars so I bow out at this juncture.