Y-Phil posted at 4:22 AM Sun, 2 July 2023 - #4469103

hornet3d posted at 6:46 PM Sat, 1 July 2023 - #4469088

I understand you, and I swear to God that if Bondware would like to do us one the very best favors with Poser, that would be to sell us a version able to run natively on each Debian-based Linux distributions, one of them being the famous free Ubuntu.
Poser and still for a few month Adobe's collection are the last two reasons why I'm still using that damn'd Windows OS... And no: I'll never go to the... "fruity world"...

Actually, I'm learning free tools such as Gimp so that by the end of the year I will able to give up with Adobe's mechanism of patent thieves...
Which also means that Poser will the last reason why I'm still running Windows.

I totally agree with you and would love to have a stable working version of Poser 13 on Linux.  I recently had to replace my wife's machine for the same reason it was Windows 7 but i had that as a dual boot with Linux and she loved it, that said the mini pc had Windows 11 home on it and the whole setup was painless and she seems to be getting on well with Windows11.  It was that experience, the realisation that mini PCs were beginning to pack a punch that sent me down this path.

My sentiments with Adobe is also much the same as yours, I recently had to send some documents electronically and the recipient wanted them sent via as password protected PDF, to do that with adobe you need to  use Acrobat Pro at £20 month, I then remembered I had installed FlexiPDF from Soft Maker some time back but sadly it did not support password protection. I quick visit to the Soft Maker web site showed that the latest FlipPDF Pro 2020 version did have password protection and the better news, outright purchase was £69.99.  Even better news was the fact that, as I had purchased a previous version the price of the outright purchase upgrade was £43.99.  A really hard call to make pay Adobe £240 over the next 12 months and own nothing at the end of it or pay Soft Maker £43.99 and own the program.

 

 

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.