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I switched to Macs almost completely for personal and devlopment use about 13 or 14 years ago. However, last year I started a 3d printing side hustle, and got a
by bdcravens 9mo ago
I switched to Macs almost completely for personal and devlopment use about 13 or 14 years ago. However, last year I started a 3d printing side hustle, and got an HP laptop for running the print studio since the amount of hardware I could get for less than $1000 was hard to ignore. However, things like this, and other weird issues (my fonts have gone all wonky a couple of times after random updates) make me want to switch it over to a Linux distro (even though the software support for what I need is much better in the Windows world, and in some cases, better than even on the Mac)
- edg5000 9mo ago> the software support for what I need is much better in the Windows world Please elaborate; can you name a few tools and what you use them for? Just curious.
- wileydragonfly 9mo ago[flagged]
- kstrauser 9mo agoNot the person you replied to, but I’ll go. Try experimenting with ham radio on anything but Windows. As far as I can tell, they revoke your Apple developer’s license and confiscate your Linux install disks when you start selling radio hardware. That’s not completely true. There’s good Linux and Mac software for lots of things. But approximately 100% of radio manufacturers ship Windows software. Far fewer support anything else. I bought a new radio at Christmas. Before buying it, I ruled out alternatives that didn’t have 1st party or good 3rd party support. It’s like trying to buy a scanner in 2003.
- quietsegfault 9mo agoAlmost all the “good” radio software runs primarily on Windows. Almost all of it is ancient in ways that genuinely suck. It’s like going back in time!
- kstrauser 9mo agoSo true! “Thank your buying Yaesu! Here’s your configuration app. Requirements: Windows 98 or below.”
- quietsegfault 9mo agoI find it quaint, and reminds me of the good ol' days.
- bdcravens 9mo agoA number of the Autodesk tools and Solidworks, for modeling. Slicers can use APIs native to Windows to perform model repairs. Bambu Lab's farm manager only runs on Windows.
- giancarlostoro 9mo agoThe Creality one runs decent on Mac and Windows, sadly on Linux its a nightmare, and technically why I ditched Ubuntu / popOS for Arch Linux, but I can't help but still feel it runs a little weirder + its out of date compared to Mac and Windows versions. My buddy used to use Orca slicer on my printer, that one iirc should run on Mac too, but I havent tried it.
- hagbard_c 9mo agoSuperSlicer, PrusaSlicer and Creality Print work fine for me using Debian. Orca Slicer runs but reliably crashes when opening the preferences window, something which it has been doing for a long time according to the bug report. Cura also works fine om Debian for me. Which problems did you have running any of these?
- edg5000 9mo agoDoes Creality have special changes made to the slicer? If it's just the profilem, then running the PrusaSlicer app image might be the easiest. PrusaSlicer appimage has always worked perfectly on Ubuntu 22 LTS.
- giancarlostoro 9mo agoI'm probably never going back to Ubuntu. I believe it was crying about me not having the right version of GLIBC, and it just frustrated me.
- bdcravens 9mo agoBambu (and Orca, etc) runs fine on Windows and Mac. It's the automatic model repair that gives it a leg up on Windows.
- ForestCritter 9mo agoI have embroidery software and cs3 suite that won't run on linux so I'm planning an offline windows 8.1 just for them on an old computer.