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  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 2,000

    plj1225 said:

    now DAZ all working under Linux

    Even plugins?

  • csaacsaa Posts: 1,072
    edited 2:35PM

    jmucchiello said:

    plj1225 said:

    now DAZ all working under Linux

    Even plugins?

    jmucchiello,

    Thanks for the reality check. 

    Looking into Daz plugins would be a "morning after" task. Typically, the priority is to get Daz and Linux working nicely, a baseline goal calling for days of trial and error ... even all nighters, for the brave of heart! 

    It would be helpful on your end to list all the Daz plugins you think should be checked. Mind you though, if you hang around long enough in any Linux community, you'll find most folks adopting a "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" philosophy. Everything is a work-in-progress, and it keeps people engaged. Fair warning: any nay-saying or FUDing (fear-uncertainty-and-doubt) will likely be met with mild interest.

    I speak from personal experience, getting my hands dirty with Slackware Linux back in the stone age days of floppy disk installations, when we hooked into the fledgling Internet via modems, and the community was a patchwork of electronic bulletin boards. The Men From GNU made for a persuasive group, peeling us away from standard issue UNIX. Somewhere along the way, the WWW burst forth and Linux became the cornerstone OS ... for good or for ill.

    Fast forward decades to today, I was chatting with a college CS major who was hopping with excitement about deploying as many Linux distros that he could among the handful of PCs he's assembled in bedroom. Heh. It took being bitten by the Linux bug to cure him of his nightly video game habits. laugh

    Cheers!

     

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  • TimberWolfTimberWolf Posts: 384

    @jmucchiello

    Once you've got DS installed and working then everything else will slot into place. The plugins folder will exist in any Linux distro inside a pseudo-Windows environment exactly where you would expect it to and all you need to do is either use DIM or manually drop the .dll files into it as you would normally. I have yet to encounter a plugin that works in native Windows that doesn't in a Linux WINE environment and I would be surprised to learn that there was one. However, the converse is also true: If it doesn't work in Windows (e.g. a DS4 plugin in DS6) then it won't magically start working in Linux.

    @plj1225

    Yup, it can be a bit of a head-scratcher at times if you're new(ish) to Linux and haven't run through the process before but, as you've discovered, rocket science it ain't!

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 111,261

    If plug-ins didn't work then DS wouldn't, a lot of the base application is actually implemented with plug-ins.

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