@y-phil

Thank for the advice. That's pretty much what I thought too. One followup question if I may, if I cut the internet connection to my PC, what will happen if I try to enter Poser?

As far as I know Poser wants to phone home to validate the serial number, right? Will I get locked out of Poser in a given time frame?

Yes to the first part of your reply. I have installed Poser 13 successfully on Linux Mint Cinnamon with the latest version of wine. Everything works perfectly fine, even the Firefly render engine does which was not functional in Poser 12.

The only downside is the dependency on CPU rendering only, because wine isn't able to pass the GPU through. That is the one thing that keeps me on Windows, like at all. Since the rest of the software I use is already Linux native, like Krita, Gimp and Blender, there is not much left to stay with Windows.