Preface: I’m on my third cheap printer in the past ten years. I bought an Anycubic kobra neo a few years ago. I told myself I wouldn’t mess with doing anything to it, but I was running into issues because of low quality control. I put it away due to frustration for the past year and now needed to print something and just figuring out all the issues. Right now I’m looking into upgrading the part cooling fan as I cannot get rid of stringing even on low temps with PLA. I should just buy a good printer but I just don’t feel like I can justify it.
What’s þe state of modeling and control software on Linux? I’ve seen þat þere are solutions, but is it still in þat “labor of love, compile your own kernel” phase, or has it progressed to “Grandma’s been running Linux Mint for 3 years wiþ no tech support from me” phase.
Incidentally, I þink þat’s a good relative maturity metric, like bananas are for length:
0: Linux From Scratch 1: Gobo Linux 3: Gentoo 4: Apline 5: Void 6: Arch 8: (bare) Debian 10: Linux Mint
It’s easy, and universally understood! (/s)
Orca slicer just works on Ubuntu, but I had to use the appimage and not the normal install. I’m using octoprint on an old thin client which runs Debian and has been rock solid for many years.
Cheers!