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> 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.

by edg5000 9mo ago

wileydragonfly 9mo ago
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- kstrauser 9mo ago
  Not 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 ago
    Almost 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 ago
      So true! “Thank your buying Yaesu! Here’s your configuration app. Requirements: Windows 98 or below.”
      - quietsegfault 9mo ago
        I find it quaint, and reminds me of the good ol' days.
bdcravens 9mo ago
A 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 ago
  The 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technically why I ditched Ubuntu / popOS for Arch Linux, but I can't help but still feel it runs a little weirder + its out of date compared to Mac and Windows versions.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 ago
    SuperSlicer, 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 ago
    Does 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 ago
      I'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 ago
    Bambu (and Orca, etc) runs fine on Windows and Mac. It's the automatic model repair that gives it a leg up on Windows.

> 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.

by 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

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kstrauser 9mo ago
Not 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 ago
  Almost 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 ago
    So true! “Thank your buying Yaesu! Here’s your configuration app. Requirements: Windows 98 or below.”
    - quietsegfault 9mo ago
      I find it quaint, and reminds me of the good ol' days.

bdcravens 9mo ago

A 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 ago
The 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 ago
  SuperSlicer, 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 ago
  Does 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 ago
    I'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 ago
  Bambu (and Orca, etc) runs fine on Windows and Mac. It's the automatic model repair that gives it a leg up on Windows.