For anyone who is having trouble uninstalling Autodesk Genuine Service, I found a Reddit post pretty helpful in removing it. How do I remove Autodesk Genuine Service (WIN10)? : Autodesk (reddit.com) What was Autodesk thinking, or were they thinking to begin with? Blocking the user from uninstalling this crap on their own…
From my experience we single Maya licence takers never had any leverage on Autodesk. They built and fixed what they deemed marketable and asked for a lot of money in return. There was no guarantee that anything of the many bugs we encountered would get fixed in a timely manner.I can have that with Open Source, too. So,…
@poopipe I see your point, but I think your underestimating the value in open-source, atleast in Blenders case. Blender has changed a lot since 2.8 Its become a feature-rich and stable enough tool that its begun to see professional use. I don't think Blender is targeting companies, but rather companies are targeting it and…
For my workflow Blender is far more efficient than Maya. It also helps in my case that because I'm into creating characters my main tool is Zbrush and Blender compliments it perfectly, which I find to be better than Maya anyhow and particularly when it comes to modeling. In fact I find Maya to be unusable for modeling. The…
I would love to bin the corporate stuff off, use linux daily and never have to deal with microsoft, autodesk and adobe again. Unfortunately, I don't think its going to be a viable option in my working life (what's left of it) and the reason for that is that open source software is built for the people writing it, not the…