Windows Still Sucks
I recently dealt with a 3D-Art related problem involving DAZ3D, one of the major providers of Poser-related materials.
DAZ3D has been several years behind in producing installation programs to install their content on Macintosh computers. When OSX Lion was released, most of DAZ3D’s installers were broken. This is because OSX Lion does not support Rosetta or backward compatibility.
I was left in a quandary. I contacted DAZ3D’s tech support and Dan Farr, the President of DAZ3D. (We’ve spoken personally over the past years.) Neither Dan or DAZ Tech support could offer me any estimation on when or if DAZ3D would fix the problem with the Macintosh installers. Suddenly 90% of DAZ’s content unavailable to me. This was an intolerable situation.
I was left with a dilemma and two possible solutions.
First, I booted to an external hard drive running OSX Snow Leopard, rather than OSX Lion. I installed many products, but my poor Mac got a bit confused by having two boot drives. Then I decided to install Windows on my Macintosh.
I installed VMWare Fusion 3, and Windows XP. I was reminded why I hated Windows so much.
Windows appears to be composed of a bunch of different routines or programs that fight each other. I was immediately assaulted by a bunch of different error messages or demands that tripped over themselves for my attention. Then I installed the PC versions of my DAZ3D Poser content.
Installing DAZ3D’s content, with their latest BitRock installers in Windows was excruciating. I clicked something and waited several minutes for a response. Perhaps Windows was running slower under VMWare Fusion, rather than directly?!
I never want to repeat this ordeal again. I made a clone copy of my Poser or DAZ Studio related content after it was installed.
Compared to Windows, OSX is a dream. You get just one voice that needs to be addressed. Everything Just Works, and makes more sense.