Based on Loki's recommendations, I did some further testing. To make it short, same issue (#1054) on
- Kubuntu 16.04.1 live
- Kubuntu 16.04.1 fresh install
- Kubuntu 16.04.1 up to date
- Kubuntu + ppa:oibaf
- Kubuntu + ppa:xorg-edgers
- Debian testing (up to date, my current productive system )
MakeHuman worked flawlessly on Linux until Ubuntu 15.10 (incl.)
My hardware: Intel Haswell 4800MQ (HD 4600 IGP) and AMD M8970. I'm not commenting on AMD, since Linux support is changing heavily, and it's a hybrid system. On Windows 7 Makehuman still crashes on start, I'm using the latest AMD-WHQL and Intel graphics drivers. In contrast blender, as an opengl-program, starts flawless on Windows, though it has currently a minor issue on Linux (displaced auxiliary axis on move, scale or rotation, but the result of the operation is correct).
Interpretation of those results should be done very carefully, but they might point to a coding issue, although I won't exclude drivers problems.
@Loki: tell me if I'm wrong, but your Mint-system is still Ubuntu 14.04 based? What's the result of uname -r ?