Daz Studio and Linux

barry_white77

Nathanomir/Kitsumo, thanks for the input. Google ai search suggested Ubuntu with an KDE desktop and x11 is the best approach. I have been playing with MX xfce and really like it, however as a noob to Linux I would like an easy(ish) transition from w10. It is apparent with Linux there is a certain amount of trying out to see what works/feels right for any given user and hardware combo. As with many others, Daz is the only program I have need to use Windows for. Annoying.

brainmuffin

Kitsumo said:

Nyzerion said:

I'm kinda new here and I wanted to switch to linux because I'm sick and tired of windows, is the software stable enough and with all features to consider switching ? 

Nope. Never will be. No reason not to try. Come on in. We don't bite.  

The software is stable, but we users aren't... 

Nyzerion

Kitsumo said:

Nyzerion said:

I'm kinda new here and I wanted to switch to linux because I'm sick and tired of windows, is the software stable enough and with all features to consider switching ? 

Nope. Never will be. No reason not to try. Come on in. We don't bite.  

I'm doing a game atm on daz3d and I freaking love linux from what I tried already but if I can't use daz it's gonna be painful

PixelPie

greywolf said:

GafftheHorse said:

It's unfortunate, but Linux Daz users don't hang out here, and don't come here except when they are having problems.

I think this thread is about to get some more activity.  Windows 11's process scheduler absolutely blows chunks -- when I'm doing a render, the machine becomes 100% unusable otherwise to the point where I have to wait for the render to finish, because the mouse doesn't move and it doesn't register my ESC to cancel a render.  Windows 10 was slow but I could still use a web browser (and a couple xterms (cygwin)) while a render was running with no true difficulty.  Given that Windows 12 -- whenever it gets here -- will 100% mandate a microsoft login and not honour any local accounts (and all that entails), I'm not thrilled about the prospect on staying on Windows, but in order to get away from Windows, I need to run Daz3d somewhere else (and I've already bought hardware so I don't want to pay for a Mac that behaves in the same insidious data-mining way that Windows does).

I'd LIKE to run this on WINE/NetBSD but saw mention of OpenCL / Vulkan drivers which never seem to get ports to anything except Linux (<seethe>).  So, Linux it is.  I'm hanging around to see how nicely I can get this to play once I have some time to fiddle about with it.

Given there WILL BE a large chunk of the tech population that will walk away from Windows, I do wish (while fully realising that there are three chances of it happening: slim, fat, and none) that there would be some consideration of building a Linux native version of Daz (also fully realising that it would have to be built to work on Debian-based and Dead-Rat-based systems; I'd be happy about a Debian one)...

I am with you here, have purchased a set up for linux as windows 11 has too many deal breakers built in for me ("phones home", TPM, heavy telemetry, resource hog.. too long to list). I spend more time fiddling with windows issues than enjoying art creation.  I wouldn't be surprised if they start an OS subscription model . So in 2026 I am switching.  I also learned of a linux app called "bottles" that has piqued my interest... and there appears to be success running DAZ under it.. here is what AI chat said:

"Bottles is an open-source application designed to make it easier to run Windows software on Linux by creating isolated environments (called "bottles") for each app, managing dependencies, and handling configurations. It acts as a user-friendly frontend and manager for Wine, simplifying the process of setting up and running Windows programs without needing to manually tweak Wine prefixes or runners; it's very much like Wine—Bottles relies on Wine (or compatible runners like Proton) under the hood to provide the compatibility layer that translates Windows API calls to Linux ones, but it adds layers of organization, dependency management, and containerization to keep things cleaner and more isolated from your main system."

I wonder if anyone has successfully run Bryce through any of these on linux

brainmuffin

I've had quite the success going back to Lutris to do the installs. Even have the simulation running, as long as the NVidia drivers behave. Using latest Linux Mint.

Robert Freise

Has anyone tried this Proxmox

https://www.proxmox.com/en/products/proxmox-virtual-environment/overview

Nyzerion

Tonight gonna be the night I'm gonna give a go but gonna be pretty hard since I have 0 experience on linux apart from setting up sudo password on my steam deck 

n.aspros123

Richard Haseltine said:

n.aspros123 said:

Are users who've installed Daz Studio on Linux OS Distros, sending install/usage/fault feedback to the Daz Studio Devs?

Daz does not claim to suport Linux so theer is no point in reporting Linux-specific issues.

Needs to be much more support from software/hardware developers for Linux Distros and not just for Windows/Mac. One of the reasons holding me back from installing Linux is compatibility and ease of use of installing software.

The Daz Devs should really consider coding Daz and its plugins for native Linux compatibility while AI Microslop is pushing more PC users to Linux. Nvidia are being a pain with not allowing Linux Devs access to their drivers base and important coding, so they can create drivers for Linux.

brainmuffin

Nyzerion said:

Tonight gonna be the night I'm gonna give a go but gonna be pretty hard since I have 0 experience on linux apart from setting up sudo password on my steam deck 

This is quite close to the process I used:

Silent Winter

Anyone tried Studio with Heroic Game Launcher?

I've been on Linux Mint for several months, dual-booting and only going back to Win-10 for Studio. Recently I found Heroic Game Launcher as a simple way to make Windows games work on Linux (it connects with gog/Steam/Epic account or just the offline installers, or just adds an already installed game from the Windows partition). It uses Wine+Proton from Steam. It works on a lot more than just games though.

Anyhoo, for a gamble, I just tried adding my Studio install from my Windows partition. It loads up fine (doesn't have my layout or directories done so I guess the config file or whatever didn't come over). Once I added one of my content directories, it loaded content just fine (first one took a while too long but after that it seems okay - it's loading from an HDD though, not an SSD, which I'll migrate to later). It also renders, but only from CPU at the moment (it recognises the GPU in settings, just won't use it if I set it to GPU rendering).

TheMysteryIsThePoint

n.aspros123 said:

Richard Haseltine said:

n.aspros123 said:

Are users who've installed Daz Studio on Linux OS Distros, sending install/usage/fault feedback to the Daz Studio Devs?

Daz does not claim to suport Linux so theer is no point in reporting Linux-specific issues.

Needs to be much more support from software/hardware developers for Linux Distros and not just for Windows/Mac. One of the reasons holding me back from installing Linux is compatibility and ease of use of installing software.

The Daz Devs should really consider coding Daz and its plugins for native Linux compatibility while AI Microslop is pushing more PC users to Linux. Nvidia are being a pain with not allowing Linux Devs access to their drivers base and important coding, so they can create drivers for Linux.

In response to Linus quite literally giving them The Finger, NVidia open sourced their driver. It's available under the MIT license.

Since you didn't know that, you should make sure you're running it and not the nouveau driver, i.e. "lsmod | grep nouveau" should return nothing and "lsmod | grep nvidia" should return a few things.

If you have a 50 series card, you must use the MIT license version (the NVidia driver package will give you the choice), otherwise you can install the proprietary version.

 

Robert Freise

Once again DAZ really should do a Linux version especially given the fact that Nvidia supports Iray in Linux

 NVIDIA Iray has robust support for Linux, offering a C++ API for integration into applications and running server/distributed rendering on Linux, requiring compatible NVIDIA drivers (like R510 U6 or newer for certain features) and supporting modern Linux kernels (4.15+ for open modules) for efficient GPU utilization. The solution provides a comprehensive SDK and server for design visualization on Windows and Linux, allowing for both standalone and networked rendering setups.