Hi everyone!

I’m curious to know which slicer you guys use.

I’ve been using the Creality slicer, but it seems like it pretty consistently crashes, and I’ve tried Cura but the print seemed stringy despite using the same settings.

How are Orca or Prusa?

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I use Cura for no reason other than it’s simply the most popular, and easiest to find help with 🤷

    Also Prusa only provides an AppImage, which is incredibly inconvenient.

    • WFH@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      There’s also a community built Flatpak if you’re ok with that

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Welp. I see it now but when I looked it up through Gnome software, it showed me nothing. Guess I should know better by now.

      • Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Basically an executable package of an entire application for Linux. It doesn’t integrate with package managers meaning you’ll have to update it manually.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        I have no idea. It’s like a program that Linux doesn’t recognize as a program.

        • Kostas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          An appimage is basically a bundle of all the required libraries dependencies and the actual application you want to run. Its convinient for the developers since they dont have to package their software for multiple distibutions (debian, arch, suse etc). To have it behave like you are expecting (ie be double clickable to run and searchable) you need to make the file executable (either with chmod or a right click menu if your disto has the option) and create a .desktop file (either manually or using an app like Appimage Launcher)

          This may sound complicated but it is pretty easy. Though I find it an unecessary hassle as well. Here is a guide with more info as well : https://itsfoss.com/use-appimage-linux/