Hi garagebay,
I feel your frustration, i share it. But there is currently no solution to this dilemma. We have unfortunately just limited resources, and i have unfortunately upgraded to Ubuntu 20.10 already. A step back is not possible anymore. And we have to make a cut somewhere with our limited resources.
The only thing that you could do is to compile Bforartists by yourself. This isn’t even this hard, it should work flawless and in the same way than for Blender on most Linux distributions. Clone the repository, then run make, and along the way you might need to install some missing dependencies. But for full benefit you would need to compile at least with Nvidia’s Cuda, which is another challenging task on some distributions.
Kind regards
Reiner
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