Just what the topic says: this needs to happen and soon. Windows 11 has so many issues and bugs I have installed an app that prevents Windows 11 from making updates to save my PC. Linux has come a long long ways and whenever I buy my next PC, I’m running Linux. I’m completely fed up with Windows. The ONLY reason I don’t switch to Linux right now is because I run Reallusion products on there. It needs to change. I don’t want to continue to put my whole PC at risk just to run Reallusion products. This needs to be addressed if it hasn’t already been.
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Zero probability event.
I think the probability is greater than zero, even though users have been asking for this since at least 2018. Unreal Engine already works natively on Linux: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/linux And if something as complex as Unreal can run on it, then I don’t see why Reallusion can’t make the switch. I’ve been on Daz3d forums as well and people started making the switch over a year ago. Daz CAN run on Linux, it just takes some time. Here’s the thing: a lot of companies have started to migrate away from Windows to Mac. Home users have started to move to Linux, which has several builds (Mint OS and Cachy OS; Pop OS is also gaining popularity with gamers) that are very user friendly. I’m not even a Linux user, but I plan to be with my next PC. Purely as a business proposition it’s the smart thing to do. Reallusion WILL start losing money if they don’t make the switch. There’s no longer a valid argument to not make the attempt. If Wall Street doesn’t have confidence in Microsoft, I’m not sure why Reallusion would. Their stock is down 22% in the last 6 months Down 22% in 6 months and all I see are people like me, looking to make the switch. The ONLY reason I’m not doing it is because RAM and graphics card prices are so high it’s lunacy for me to buy a new PC now. I’ll wait at least another year, but I’m definitely going Linux as my OS and I won’t be the only one. There’s a 100% probability that Reallusion will lose money if they don’t make the switch.
Which version of Windows are you using? Windows Pro, Enterprise or Server or just free/Home? I don’t think these problems are as severe on more expensive versions because there you can pause or disable updates. Enabling automatic OS updates on a production machine would never be a good idea.
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You’re essentially asserting that Reallusion should undertake the cost of essentially rewriting their entire suite of software end export plugins for …which distro of Linux?
’ive been on Daz3d forums as well and people started making the switch over a year ago. Daz CAN run on Linux, it just takes some time.
The fact that you have a few highly vocal Daz users installing Daz studio inside some sort of “wine bottle emulation environment” on whatever distro of linux is not really proof that there’s any sort of mass migration to linux in the daz community
And Reallusion loses absolutely nothing when a daz user installs Linux.
They were never going to buy into the Reallusion ecosystem anyway, because they don’t have the money to spend on the software
And those who could afford it quickly change their mind when it is explained to them ,that their proprietary Genesis HD morphs and joint control morphs Don’t transfer over to character creator.
Purely as a business proposition it’s the smart thing to do. Reallusion WILL start losing money if they don’t make the switch. There’s no longer a valid argument to not make the attempt.
Actually, a company does not “lose money” to people who were never going to buy their software in the first place.
This is the demographic that Reallusion has been trying to lure into their ecosystem for over a decade, and quite frankly appear to be having very" limited "success .
Pro Studios using Autodesk Maya
for films & games animation have absolutely no use for the Reallusion ecosystem of software as it does not support non biped creatures/animals and Maya already runs on Linux.
So a Reallusion version for Linux means nothing to them.
Those few people who animate characters in Blender have absolutely no use for the Reallusion ecosystem of software
as it does not support non biped creatures/animals
A Blender based studio won an academy award with an animated film with four legged animals.
Blender users already can run their software on Linux.
So a Reallusion version on Linux means nothing to them.
Small studios and indie game developers.
,who can’t afford Autodesk Maya,
Have a superior GAME character animation solution in the cascadeur software.
I know because I have a Cascadeur pro license and cascadeur already runs on Linux.
So a Reallusion version on Linux means nothing to them.
The free Godot engine, the free unity. Engine and (according to you) Unreal Engine runs on linux
So for the $300 cost of a cascader pro license, small and indie game developers have everything they need already on Linux, Thus, they were never going to spend any money in the Reallusion ecosystem in the first place.
Now, yes, according to everything I’ve read and seen, windows 11 has been an unmitigated disaster for Microsoft.
( I still run windows 10 on my four year old permanently offline PC)
The only way a company like Reallusion will “lose money” is if their current user base completely abandons the ecosystem and refuses to buy any further upgrades or content from the Reallusion content store.
And such former customers will have left the Reallusion ecosystem to perhaps migrate over to some combination of unreal engine ,cascadeur or perhaps Maya or Blender.
or possibly switch to completely to AI workflows
But it won’t be because Reallusion did not provide them with a Linux version of their software
Disclaimer: I have nothing against Linux, I just found it a pain to work with. On top of that, much of the software I use does not run on Linux, so I’m not interested in a switch.
I have noticed many alarming post from Linux divotees, going as far as having Bill Gates in tears… It’s mainly wishful thinking and it is not particularly new.
I have always bought the Pro version of Windows and I have had very few problems, even with Windows 11. I approach it as a business, you always wait with updating until there is sufficient stability. I still use a local account to log in, so it is not true that you need a MS account for that to dispel one of the many rumors that are floating around.
To convince RL you would need to present a convincing market study (which they probably have already done themselves). Just look at the Linux OS market share and you have an answer:
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I’m using Windows 11 Pro. I did pause updates, but you can’t permanently pause them through Windows. They won’t allow it. And I was updating Windows 11 pretty consistently through the end of 2025. I just had the updates paused for several weeks so I could see if recent updates would cause a disaster. It gave me a bit of lead time in case that happened (because I’ve already had to reinstall Windows 11 on my PC once and it was a complete pain in the neck). Then a friend warned me that the updates rolling out in January were having compatibility issues with Nvidia cards. And I was seeing one issue after another with Windows 11 updates (from other users), so I found some software that permanently pauses the updates. So I avoided any catastrophic updates.
Now when you consider the fact that the Mac platform is sitting at around 7%.
Yet Reallusion felt comfortable abandoning the Mac OS for their 2D cartoon animation software.
What would any possible business incentive is there for Reallusion to literally rewrite their entire suite of 3D software and plugins for the Linux operating system, which is sitting at around 4% worldwide
and provide Tech Support for the 600 to 900 "distros "of Linux, that grok AI reports that are considered “active”.
I also own Windows 11 Pro as well. I am not a Linux user and never have been, but I have had to reinstall Windows on my last two PC’s due to Windows update bugs. Windows 10 was actually pretty good. I had no real complaints. And, EARLY ON, Windows 11 was fine. Then in the middle of last year I had an issue with one of the updates and I had to reinstall it. Even THEN I would complain a lot about Microsoft because their OS’s have been getting consistently worse, but I was willing to hang with them. But now Windows 11 has become a mess and I’ve paused all updates. I can’t risk losing the Reallusion software. That software is the only reason I haven’t switched to Linux. I don’t really need anything else Windows has to offer.
Wow. This is illuminating. So all these other programs work with Linux and Reallusion doesn’t. Thank you for all the information. I guess when I get my next PC (and - to reiterate - that won’t be for at least a year, if not longer) I’ll make the decision as to whether I’m going to leave Reallusion, because I’m definitely tossing Windows. I’ve lost all faith in them and don’t trust them any longer MAINLY because they force users to install the updates, which can be buggy. It is what it is. But I do appreciate the insightful response.
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If you have the Pro version, then using the Group Policy Editor gives you additional control, such as delaying the latest release permanently. I have had more problems because of recent NVidia drivers than with Windows.
You can create a dual boot for your current PC and see if you really like Linux and find it workable before you commit.
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The dual boot option is something someone told me about yesterday and that IS an avenue I would consider. If Windows doesn’t clean up their act AND Reallusion doesn’t make a Linux variant then that might be my only option if I want to stick with Reallusion.
Totally unrelated to this thread - what software did you use to do your graphic novel? It looks really clean. And I’m NOT trying to go down that path, but I’m genuinely curious.
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Okay, abandoning their Mac OS is a shocking strategy. They must have an extremely small team, because Mac gears (or at least it used to) its marketing strategy towards education and creatives. Lately smaller companies are switching to Mac because Windows has become such a mess as an OS. Or companies (like mine) are sticking with Windows 10. At this point I would love to speak with someone at Reallusion about their marketing strategy because I don’t get it UNLESS they’re a very very small company with exceptionally limited resources and thin profit margins. Otherwise it makes more sense to sell a product that is available on at least 2 OS’s and abandoning Mac is a step in the wrong direction. Reallusion is putting all of their eggs in the Microsoft basket and lack of diversification is a bad strategy in virtually all avenues of business. I must be missing something.
All of the artwork for my graphic novel, started out as a 3D render in blender using imported Daz content and those renders were then restyled with the flux AI Engine.
I manually laid out the pages, lettering. and panels in the comiclife software from plasQ.
https://plasq.com/apps/comiclife/macwin/
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@cepheistudios Over the last couple of years I’m under the impression that Reallusion tried to shift from an end-consumer focused market of people who like to create animated movies, to a more business oriented market, where their tools are used in a complex content development pipeline or for visualization purposes. And in these organizations it’s way more likely that Windows is used than MacOS. If they were depended on MacOS income they probably wouldn’t have stopped development for that platform.
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I cannot find the exact thread But PeterRL effectively said as much when he told a user that “Reallusion is no longer targeting the hobbyist market.”
Linux is a great OS
I have Linux” Mint” installed over on one of my old PC’s
(a HP all in one given to me by a neighbor on its way to the dumpster).
the machine is so under powered that I only use it as Video player in my Kitchen area when having Breakfast.
I also have and 15 year Old intel Imac
That I use for internet.
(another free gift that came loaded with
Adobe premier, Audition Photoshop, Illustrator CS6, and Apple final cut pro 10)
My main dell, windows 10, workstation is 5 years old and has never been allowed to install a windows update via a system setting and is air gapped from the internet 99.97 percent of the time.
Now that I am retired, and migrated completely to AI for visual production,
My next hardware purchase will probably
be 14 inch Android galaxy tablet to interact with the various online AI services that I subscribe to.
All of the three major OS’s have their relative advantages & pitfalls. in 2026 people are managing to be productive with any of the three including windows.
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Exactly. I remember years ago, you supposedly could not be creative unless you had a Mac. Many creatives believed that (I didn’t). Then Apple scr*wed up. I don’t remember the exact details, but they had a tendency to make older technology incompatible. The latest was that 32-bit applications would no longer work. A sort of “the latest is the greatest” syndrome. I have personal gripes with Apple because they aquired software I liked that could run on Windows and then of course dropped Windows support. One is Logic and more recently it was a brilliant audio synthesis program called Alchemy.
As a person who worked for 15 years as a graphic designer for print,(before migrating to 3D),
I can tell you the exact reason why Mac creatives believed this.
Technically It was true, but not so much a matter of “creativity” but only because Apple ,early on, formed a tight partnership with Adobe, which, even back in the 1990s, was already dominating the graphic design software market.
This meant that the macintosh computer OS supported all of the industry standard postscript Page description language
Printer drivers for all of the 4 color separation film devices used to create the CMYK plates for 4 color offset printing.
This used to be only possible with uber expensive dedicated systems such as the “Atex” that only the biggest legacy publishers could afford to own.
Also during that time, the industry standard professional page layout and design program was Quark Xpress, which was Mac Only, so if you wanted to work as a professional graphic designer you had to know the macintosh operating system to even get a job.
Obviously windows eventually caught up to the Mac. As Adobe, and Quark, finally ported their consumer desktop software and the accompanying printer drivers and font management capabilities over to the windows platform.
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Linux is starting to go mainstream - People are getting fed up with the recent windows 11 bloatware, and it’s cutting in on the profit margins of computer manufacturers. It might be wise to jump in before it goes fully mainstream.
Further, Linux has been defined as the better operating system for AI
Even Steam is jumping in on the Linux Bandwagon, with their own version of Linux OS, which is the bigger threat to Windows 11, because gamers are currently the most demanding and influential users.
and there is a large stock of Linux laptops now on the market from name brand manufacturers.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=linux+laptop&rh=p_n_g-1004198069091%3A7817221011&dc&crid=CVG0JMSGE9HS&qid=1771457386&rnid=562215011&sprefix=linux+laptop%2Caps%2C196&ref=sr_nr_p_n_g-1004198069091_10&ds=v1%3Au7QBtO%2BXp%2BLlqPkf4MIn86%2Fg4lqk%2Fv331nqF%2BR5MFyA
the writing is on the wall, windows 11 is dying a slow aol / myspace death - with AI and gaming to be its achilles heel, even mac might feel a bit of pressure from this too.
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