Thanks for trying it DrBob.
the error is actually a popup window titled Microsoft Visual C++ something, so that could be why you don’t have the issue with linux :p:
I was working home this week, I’ll have to try it on various setup next week when I get back, and eventually log a bug with AD.
In the meantime, I posted here hoping I was just doing something clearly wrong that could explain this error.
edit: attached a screenshot of the crash
also, more often than not, it’s the very error window, however occasionally it’s the standard maya crash window with the temp timestamp file backup.