Linux and cad or slicer software don’t get along, i found out. I mean i didn’t try suuuper hard, but definitely not out of the box. With a grudge i reinstalled windows on my laptop to use it just for cad and printing. A horrible experience to beginn with, but everhthing worked. The next day, the laptop suddenly had no internet connection. It could find every wifi network, except my own. I reinstalled everything and it worked. Used my wifi to print, nice. Next day, same thing. No internet, my wifi was gone. I’m no computer wizard, but usually i’m pretty good at dinding solutions online and fix problems. This one is so ultra specific that when you look for something like: can’t find wifi or whatever, everything else comes up. I had wifi, it worked… Twice. Anyway, i fucking hate windows
Slicers on linux work just fine. At least the ones I’ve tried. With CAD you have a bit limited options. FreeCAD is fine if you need a new knob for your appliance or something relatively simple. OpenSCAD can do pretty wild things but learning curve for it is pretty steep. And then there’s browser based cads but they tend to have monthly subscription. Plus of course Blender, but I wouldn’t count that as CAD-software and that if something needs time and effort to learn.
Linux and cad or slicer software don’t get along, i found out. I mean i didn’t try suuuper hard, but definitely not out of the box. With a grudge i reinstalled windows on my laptop to use it just for cad and printing. A horrible experience to beginn with, but everhthing worked. The next day, the laptop suddenly had no internet connection. It could find every wifi network, except my own. I reinstalled everything and it worked. Used my wifi to print, nice. Next day, same thing. No internet, my wifi was gone. I’m no computer wizard, but usually i’m pretty good at dinding solutions online and fix problems. This one is so ultra specific that when you look for something like: can’t find wifi or whatever, everything else comes up. I had wifi, it worked… Twice. Anyway, i fucking hate windows
Slicers on linux work just fine. At least the ones I’ve tried. With CAD you have a bit limited options. FreeCAD is fine if you need a new knob for your appliance or something relatively simple. OpenSCAD can do pretty wild things but learning curve for it is pretty steep. And then there’s browser based cads but they tend to have monthly subscription. Plus of course Blender, but I wouldn’t count that as CAD-software and that if something needs time and effort to learn.