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This thing sounds like a nightmare. Speaking as a Windows power user, they'll get my Windows 7 when they pry it from my etc etc etc. (Seriously, people. Window

This thing sounds like a nightmare. Speaking as a Windows power user, they'll get my Windows 7 when they pry it from my etc etc etc. (Seriously, people. Windows 7 is generally recognised to be the first decent to good Windows OS in a long, long while. And now MS are junking that? Aargh.) Looks like it's backup plan time. What's the landscape like from a "moving to Linux" point of view these days? I'm specifically asking from a 3D animator's POV - historically one of the professions that has the hardest time getting away from Windows. How's support for 3D Studio Max, Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects et al?

rdl 14y ago
Yes, I actually hate Windows, but have a Windows 7 machine on my desk (along with Ubuntu 12.04 and Mac OSX 10.8), and I find I actually prefer the Windows box for everything except sysadminning. I am kind of amazed at how good Windows 7 is. I assume corporate and power users (of desktops) will stay with Windows 7, and then Windows 8, Windows Phone, and Windows 7 SP n will merge in 3-4 years into the real next Windows.
- kijin 14y ago
  It's not a bad idea to skip every other Windows release anyway. 98SE (O) - ME (X) - XP (O) - Vista (X) - 7 (O) - 8 (X) - 9 (?)
- thenomad 14y ago
  Yeah, I've definitely felt odd about saying this for a long while, but Windows 7 really is, actually, a good OS. It's not quite a shiny as OSX or as configurable as Linux, but it does what I need an OS to do - it Just F---ing Works.
DeepDuh 14y ago
As a designer it's pretty much hopeless to switch to Linux I'm afraid.
Sander_Marechal 14y ago
> What's the landscape like from a "moving to Linux" point of view these days? It really depends on the applications you need. There are studios out there that run everything on Linux. Maya works fine on Linux, but Adobe products do not run at all.
- thenomad 14y ago
  No Adobe? Bugger. That's me out, then.
- CamperBob2 14y ago
  Maya works fine on Linux, but Adobe products do not run at all. Gotta wonder if that's about to change. Adobe needs more friends these days. If there's even the slightest indication that Windows 8 is going to prompt any sort of migration to "Linux on the desktop," then smart ISVs will have people working 24/7 on the ports. If Maya can run on Linux, so can CS6.
  - thenomad 14y ago
    Sample size of one here, but if I could reasonably easily get the Adobe Production Suite, 3DSMax, and a couple of other pieces of unique 3D software to run on Linux, I'd probably move as and when Windows 8 became otherwise inevitable.

rdl 14y ago

Yes, I actually hate Windows, but have a Windows 7 machine on my desk (along with Ubuntu 12.04 and Mac OSX 10.8), and I find I actually prefer the Windows box for everything except sysadminning. I am kind of amazed at how good Windows 7 is. I assume corporate and power users (of desktops) will stay with Windows 7, and then Windows 8, Windows Phone, and Windows 7 SP n will merge in 3-4 years into the real next Windows.

kijin 14y ago
It's not a bad idea to skip every other Windows release anyway. 98SE (O) - ME (X) - XP (O) - Vista (X) - 7 (O) - 8 (X) - 9 (?)
thenomad 14y ago
Yeah, I've definitely felt odd about saying this for a long while, but Windows 7 really is, actually, a good OS. It's not quite a shiny as OSX or as configurable as Linux, but it does what I need an OS to do - it Just F---ing Works.

DeepDuh 14y ago

As a designer it's pretty much hopeless to switch to Linux I'm afraid.

Sander_Marechal 14y ago

> What's the landscape like from a "moving to Linux" point of view these days? It really depends on the applications you need. There are studios out there that run everything on Linux. Maya works fine on Linux, but Adobe products do not run at all.

thenomad 14y ago
No Adobe? Bugger. That's me out, then.
CamperBob2 14y ago
Maya works fine on Linux, but Adobe products do not run at all. Gotta wonder if that's about to change. Adobe needs more friends these days. If there's even the slightest indication that Windows 8 is going to prompt any sort of migration to "Linux on the desktop," then smart ISVs will have people working 24/7 on the ports. If Maya can run on Linux, so can CS6.
- thenomad 14y ago
  Sample size of one here, but if I could reasonably easily get the Adobe Production Suite, 3DSMax, and a couple of other pieces of unique 3D software to run on Linux, I'd probably move as and when Windows 8 became otherwise inevitable.