I tried mint 22 worked fine but could not get any thing working to simply view an STL. First time I installed Chitbox 2 it worked ok. When double click exe file it asked to launch or run terminal. After playing with file system ect for a week I reinstalled mint as had worked out file syste. Re installed Chitbox and the only way could get to load was to copy exe and paste in terminal to run. Crashed continually though. Still could not get a program so could just view STL. Simplified 3d would not even install as system kept telling me I wasn't authorised. Got sick of not being able to print for nearly 3 weeks went back to win 10. If I could run simply 3d and Chitbox as well as see STL I would use Linux mint but it just doesn't work for me.
Tried it a decade ago and it hurt😭...but Since getting a steam deck and seeing that it no longer hurts to use linux, I've installed nobora/xbuntu on all my old utility pc in dualboot with windows
I've been using Linux for over 10 years and I can do everything I need no problem... Linux Mint is just an absolute breeze. I didn't really get on with Cura and switched to Prusa slicer which works flawlessly on Mint with my Ender3 V2 - definitely worth taking a look.
I use Linux everyday as it doesn't get in the way of what I’m doing. I lost patients with windoz long ago. It also extends the life of my old computers.
I'm happy I'm not the only one thinking that XP was the best one of Window$ family 🤣 Many years ago one guy showed me the OneNote. Back then it was in development, full of problems, but it had amazing potential. And I started to use it regularly for my notes. And I still use it. 2010 version. Everything they did after that was a shot to the knee. The last straw was a few years back, when company I worked for, change the platform to 360 (and then some more). I was unable to upload all my notebooks without special accounts, priviledges and such sh.....t. Sorry M$... You did something right and you effed it up perfectly. Still usilng 2010 version of Office just for OneNote. It was a beautiful tool and they took an axe and chopped off all the best features.
i still have Windows7 running on an 2010 PC...its the same as XP... ;) after that, ubuntu/debian....no going back ever! and people are always amazed at how fast and cheap the thing is... marketing is one hell of a drug.
@@simonschneider5913 About stability of the OS, I remember when we had ADSL connection somewhere around year 2002. Time of downloading movies, games and soft with 128kb/s speed 😁 We had special forums, where people put screenshots of their Win98 running continuously for a few weeks. I don't remember the record, but mine was close to 2 weeks 😁Somewhere around 12 days without a crash. And I was using that computer for gaming too!
"Linux is just another operating system." I don't know how many times I have tried to convince the diehard Linux users that this is really the case. Many of them want to keep it difficult to use so that they can keep the riffraff from using their precious Linux. We need more people with your attitude toward Linux.
what? no. Nobody wants to "keep Linux hard to use." Linux has its advantages and disadvantages, and if you focus on providing a distro of Linux that has a MacBook or Windows like experience You get Chrome OS. thats it. Thats what you get. Thats how Chrome OS came to be.
@@AnonymousAnarchist2 There are people who frown on distros that work without the user having to use the command line. They hate the idea that there are people who WANT a MacBook or Windows experience- without the baggage that comes with either product. And they don’t understand that there are people who want to use a computer as a tool and not make adjusting the operating system their life’s work. And that they want to do it without having Google looking over their shoulders.
Some communities do. The largest of which are in the arch community. They also over harp on some things; actively dissuading people from using distros for insignificant reasons or petty drama. I mean its like every other week somebody is ranting about how terrible ubuntu is.... makes it really difficult to convince people to drop windows. Especially when ubuntu/mint and manjaro are the easiest to switch to.
@@Soletestament Amen. Ubuntu and Mint ARE terrible- because they work right out of the box and give people what they want without requiring extensive adjustments just to get basic functionality. Oh the humanity!!! At least that seems to be the attitude of the people you are talking about.
Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop is what I use everyday.
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I was using Fedora until a few days ago. Until it mashed itself to bits for no reason. Whacked Cinnamon on and it looks and feel a lot better. The accursed NVIDIA drivers haven't killed it yet.
Been running Linux since 2001 its come a long way and its mostly gaming that has held it back but that is changing as well...Linux is an amazing tool for everything computer related.
I came from the Amiga world and in 1996 I became a linux user and have never looked back. LinuxCNC became my obvious choice when i got my 6040 cnc and Freecad has everything I could want with python built right in. Thanks to all the wonderful people who make this community better instead of trying to get every penny out of my pocket. You are a Rockstar in my book Robert!
I find downloading the packaged version of Cura from Ultimaker is super easy and keeps me up to date compared to using the version from the various package managers. A caveat though, I've been using Linux as my primary (almost only) desktop since 1995, so your mileage may vary. I can't imagine using windows at this point.
My 3d printing setup comprises Tinkercad running in Firefox + Cura running on Lubuntu on a repurposed HP Chrome box. Boot up is really quick and the Linux operating system has been rock solid.
Allo Robert! I guess that I'm a bit of a techno-nerd oddity, but I've been using Linux for everything for nearly 28 years. I'm currently using Linux Mint Debian Edition 22.3 with Orcaslicer and Lychee. I've also used Slic3r, Cura, Chitubox, and a few skinned versions of each. I use FreeCAD for design work. I use a trio of Sovol SV086 and SV07 FDM printers, as well as Creality LD002H and Anycubic Mono X 6Ks SLA resin printers for fine parts. I've also been a Resolver Studio user since Resolve 14. Resolve 18 runs great on my same desktop Linux system. Of course, I'm a bit more aggressive than that Dell with a 24GB RTX Ampere GPU, an i9 CPU, and 128GB of RAM, but ... 😎
Linux can be used to run a small cnc business. Lightburn and Inkscape for lasers and plasma cutters. FreeCAD for CAD/CAM used in three axis milling. Cura/Orca/Prusa-Slic3r for 3D printing.
I have been using Linux (Ubuntu) and the Cura slicer for over 6 years, with absolute success. On a Grabber-type 3D printer that I built myself using Arduino.
I switched to linux 2 years ago and love it! Never going going back to windows! Can you please make a video how you got davinci resolve to run in mint?
😂 Yeah but can it run .... I have moved to online apps. And you use mint! You are the best, but I am waiting for the rust based Desktop Environment that cosmos popOS! Is doing and I am really torn for my next replacement laptop between system 76 and framework.
I've used unices off and on since 1993. They tend to be less vulnerablle to stupid things like Windows, simply because the software was designed to be more secure. It's not a guarantee. You'd still want to harden a modern Linux, maybe use SELinux or other things. Also, Linux is less often used, and used less by people with money or infrastructure at stake, so it's a less meaty target OS to find exploits. But that doesn't mean exploits don't exist. Security and stability are two different things. Linux can be more stable. The big drawback is perpetual lack of support for modern hardware which is closed and the companies aren't Linux friendly. This means everything: GPU cards, network cards, bus controllers, WiFi chips, Mobile/5G chips, router SoCs, and so on. Often, just a few really garbage pieces of hardware are supported, think 15-20 year old tech. And even then, often quite poorly, not optimized, sometimes quite buggy. When you build a system out of garbage hardware, it tends to be unreliable, prone to thermal damage, frequently run too hot as well as shut off every night to cool rapidly and destroy circuits, and on every cold morning to destroy itself more. Overheating and thermal shock are two different things, but both INSTANTLY and IRREVERSIBLY destroy circuits. You may start with screen glitches, green blocks, random slowdowns, eventually you get runtime data corruption, then app crashes and frequent system crashes. If you do get an old system that seems to work, best run it 24/7 in a temperature controlled room, never below 70°F, never above 75°F, never humid, and clean the dust regularly from PSU, HSF, RAM, MB, etc. There's no reason such hardware shouldn't easily run 15-25 years. Otherwise, plan to fail every 3-6 months, and rebuild a "new" used system. Buying high-end, old stock, is probably the best for budget, as quality components will both outperform and outlive abused garbage hardware.
Cheers mate! The perfect answer to my questions. Your perception for what we need proves that you are very telepathic in regard to Morphic fields! Which is a result of following you heart. Keep up the great work Mate!
Thanks for the video. Honestly, for someone who actively describes themself as not liking to mess with a bunch of settings etc the fact that you are working with Linux is a good sign that Linux has actually come a long way. Some thoughts on your viewpoint re: Hardware -- YES, to some extent the OS, will have an effect on performance. BUT, when you wander from simple business applications into the realm of Workstation Applications, such as Video Rendering, AI Training and Model Usage, Engineering Applications etc, you will find that your hardware will be the single most important thing. You will need a beast of a graphics card, and a nice fast CPU, and fast hard drives. You can "still" use Linux on such a machine. But, for example, without a beast of a graphics card, and really great hard drives, you will find that video editing is going to be slow. Consider using NVMe hard drives -- they have really great speed. Make sure you have 32 GB RAM. Buy a great video card. So sure, you can use an older server -- but, I wouldn't expect much without adding NVMe drives and a video card.
Hey a while ago you spoke of redox flow batteries.. my favorite topic. I was wondering if you would be interested in testing out sodium silicate painted 3d parts for flow or static flow batteries! I can't help but think the accuracy of printing with the robustness of glass like material could be a fun venture?
Meanwhile I'm here daily driving Linux and switching between Cura, Prusa and Orca slicers with no problems. For Neptune4, remember to include "PRINT_START" in the start G-code to make sure the bed leveling mesh is loaded and applied during the print (it might be by default, depending on what version of firmware you have, but it doesn't hurt to load it explicitly).
I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but I use Simplify3d so I would have to either get used to an inferior slicer or buy another license to put on a Linux system! I might just do it just to mess around with open source slicers just to see how they stack up now a days!
I've got a Beelink S12 Pro bolted to my monitor (about 10W resting power usage). I used to have a full setup with a powerful graphics card until the PSU died and I parted out on ebay. For what I use my PC for it's much more reasonable (cost onlyu £170) Comes with a Windows 11 licence but it runs better on Linux
Hi Robert,
I have been 3d printing from Linux for 5 years now. Works flawlessly. I will never go back to Windoze.
All the best from California! 🧡
I've been doing the same for about a decade 🙂 It was Windross 8 that finally pushed me away from MS OS's, at home at least.
I tried mint 22 worked fine but could not get any thing working to simply view an STL. First time I installed Chitbox 2 it worked ok. When double click exe file it asked to launch or run terminal. After playing with file system ect for a week I reinstalled mint as had worked out file syste. Re installed Chitbox and the only way could get to load was to copy exe and paste in terminal to run. Crashed continually though. Still could not get a program so could just view STL. Simplified 3d would not even install as system kept telling me I wasn't authorised. Got sick of not being able to print for nearly 3 weeks went back to win 10. If I could run simply 3d and Chitbox as well as see STL I would use Linux mint but it just doesn't work for me.
People promoting linux makes me so happy. I've been using it for a decade already and it's sooo good I cannot move back to windows.
Tried it a decade ago and it hurt😭...but Since getting a steam deck and seeing that it no longer hurts to use linux, I've installed nobora/xbuntu on all my old utility pc in dualboot with windows
I've been using Linux for over 10 years and I can do everything I need no problem... Linux Mint is just an absolute breeze. I didn't really get on with Cura and switched to Prusa slicer which works flawlessly on Mint with my Ender3 V2 - definitely worth taking a look.
I use Linux everyday as it doesn't get in the way of what I’m doing. I lost patients with windoz long ago. It also extends the life of my old computers.
Patients see a doctor, patience is what you need in a traffic jam! 😊
Apparently I'm not the only one who moved to Linux back when Windows XP reached End of Life.
I'm happy I'm not the only one thinking that XP was the best one of Window$ family 🤣 Many years ago one guy showed me the OneNote. Back then it was in development, full of problems, but it had amazing potential. And I started to use it regularly for my notes. And I still use it. 2010 version. Everything they did after that was a shot to the knee. The last straw was a few years back, when company I worked for, change the platform to 360 (and then some more). I was unable to upload all my notebooks without special accounts, priviledges and such sh.....t. Sorry M$... You did something right and you effed it up perfectly. Still usilng 2010 version of Office just for OneNote. It was a beautiful tool and they took an axe and chopped off all the best features.
i still have Windows7 running on an 2010 PC...its the same as XP... ;) after that, ubuntu/debian....no going back ever! and people are always amazed at how fast and cheap the thing is... marketing is one hell of a drug.
@@simonschneider5913 Am I correct that win7 was more used for server applications? Something rings a bell.
@@ogi22 idk, but it was pretty stable, as youd expect from a refined version of XP, so perhaps that was a thing.
@@simonschneider5913 About stability of the OS, I remember when we had ADSL connection somewhere around year 2002. Time of downloading movies, games and soft with 128kb/s speed 😁 We had special forums, where people put screenshots of their Win98 running continuously for a few weeks. I don't remember the record, but mine was close to 2 weeks 😁Somewhere around 12 days without a crash. And I was using that computer for gaming too!
"Linux is just another operating system." I don't know how many times I have tried to convince the diehard Linux users that this is really the case. Many of them want to keep it difficult to use so that they can keep the riffraff from using their precious Linux. We need more people with your attitude toward Linux.
what? no. Nobody wants to "keep Linux hard to use."
Linux has its advantages and disadvantages, and if you focus on providing a distro of Linux that has a MacBook or Windows like experience
You get Chrome OS. thats it. Thats what you get. Thats how Chrome OS came to be.
@@AnonymousAnarchist2 There are people who frown on distros that work without the user having to use the command line. They hate the idea that there are people who WANT a MacBook or Windows experience- without the baggage that comes with either product. And they don’t understand that there are people who want to use a computer as a tool and not make adjusting the operating system their life’s work. And that they want to do it without having Google looking over their shoulders.
Some communities do. The largest of which are in the arch community. They also over harp on some things; actively dissuading people from using distros for insignificant reasons or petty drama.
I mean its like every other week somebody is ranting about how terrible ubuntu is.... makes it really difficult to convince people to drop windows. Especially when ubuntu/mint and manjaro are the easiest to switch to.
@@Soletestament Amen. Ubuntu and Mint ARE terrible- because they work right out of the box and give people what they want without requiring extensive adjustments just to get basic functionality. Oh the humanity!!! At least that seems to be the attitude of the people you are talking about.
cheers mate
Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop is what I use everyday.
I was using Fedora until a few days ago. Until it mashed itself to bits for no reason. Whacked Cinnamon on and it looks and feel a lot better. The accursed NVIDIA drivers haven't killed it yet.
Been running Linux since 2001 its come a long way and its mostly gaming that has held it back but that is changing as well...Linux is an amazing tool for everything computer related.
Perhaps a lead on question then, Linux and 3D scanning?
I came from the Amiga world and in 1996 I became a linux user and have never looked back. LinuxCNC became my obvious choice when i got my 6040 cnc and Freecad has everything I could want with python built right in. Thanks to all the wonderful people who make this community better instead of trying to get every penny out of my pocket. You are a Rockstar in my book Robert!
I find downloading the packaged version of Cura from Ultimaker is super easy and keeps me up to date compared to using the version from the various package managers. A caveat though, I've been using Linux as my primary (almost only) desktop since 1995, so your mileage may vary. I can't imagine using windows at this point.
My 3d printing setup comprises Tinkercad running in Firefox + Cura running on Lubuntu on a repurposed HP Chrome box. Boot up is really quick and the Linux operating system has been rock solid.
Allo Robert! I guess that I'm a bit of a techno-nerd oddity, but I've been using Linux for everything for nearly 28 years. I'm currently using Linux Mint Debian Edition 22.3 with Orcaslicer and Lychee. I've also used Slic3r, Cura, Chitubox, and a few skinned versions of each. I use FreeCAD for design work. I use a trio of Sovol SV086 and SV07 FDM printers, as well as Creality LD002H and Anycubic Mono X 6Ks SLA resin printers for fine parts.
I've also been a Resolver Studio user since Resolve 14. Resolve 18 runs great on my same desktop Linux system.
Of course, I'm a bit more aggressive than that Dell with a 24GB RTX Ampere GPU, an i9 CPU, and 128GB of RAM, but ... 😎
Linux can be used to run a small cnc business. Lightburn and Inkscape for lasers and plasma cutters. FreeCAD for CAD/CAM used in three axis milling. Cura/Orca/Prusa-Slic3r for 3D printing.
LinuxCNC, bCNC both run on Raspberry Pi.
I have been using Linux (Ubuntu) and the Cura slicer for over 6 years, with absolute success. On a Grabber-type 3D printer that I built myself using Arduino.
You can also use flatpak packages which are more self contained. Dead easy to use and many packages available.
I switched to linux 2 years ago and love it!
Never going going back to windows!
Can you please make a video how you got davinci resolve to run in mint?
😂 Yeah but can it run .... I have moved to online apps. And you use mint! You are the best, but I am waiting for the rust based Desktop Environment that cosmos popOS! Is doing and I am really torn for my next replacement laptop between system 76 and framework.
It is said that Linux can run on a toaster.
Great video, today I just added a new vm to my proxmox server to run octoprint.
cool
I've used unices off and on since 1993. They tend to be less vulnerablle to stupid things like Windows, simply because the software was designed to be more secure. It's not a guarantee. You'd still want to harden a modern Linux, maybe use SELinux or other things. Also, Linux is less often used, and used less by people with money or infrastructure at stake, so it's a less meaty target OS to find exploits. But that doesn't mean exploits don't exist. Security and stability are two different things. Linux can be more stable. The big drawback is perpetual lack of support for modern hardware which is closed and the companies aren't Linux friendly. This means everything: GPU cards, network cards, bus controllers, WiFi chips, Mobile/5G chips, router SoCs, and so on. Often, just a few really garbage pieces of hardware are supported, think 15-20 year old tech. And even then, often quite poorly, not optimized, sometimes quite buggy. When you build a system out of garbage hardware, it tends to be unreliable, prone to thermal damage, frequently run too hot as well as shut off every night to cool rapidly and destroy circuits, and on every cold morning to destroy itself more. Overheating and thermal shock are two different things, but both INSTANTLY and IRREVERSIBLY destroy circuits. You may start with screen glitches, green blocks, random slowdowns, eventually you get runtime data corruption, then app crashes and frequent system crashes. If you do get an old system that seems to work, best run it 24/7 in a temperature controlled room, never below 70°F, never above 75°F, never humid, and clean the dust regularly from PSU, HSF, RAM, MB, etc. There's no reason such hardware shouldn't easily run 15-25 years. Otherwise, plan to fail every 3-6 months, and rebuild a "new" used system. Buying high-end, old stock, is probably the best for budget, as quality components will both outperform and outlive abused garbage hardware.
I moved from Amiga to Linux shortly after upgrading to a PC. I prefer the programming based OpenSCAD for design work on kubuntu and Cura as my slicer.
I've been using Linux (Ubuntu) for years. It's come a long way with more mainstream software like Cura becoming available.
I'm doing Divinci as well so hopefully we can get thru it. It has great features! Cheers!
I only have a Windows machine to rip BluRay. Otherwise it just sits there. Linux is so much easier than it used to be.
Cheers mate! The perfect answer to my questions. Your perception for what we need proves that you are very telepathic in regard to Morphic fields! Which is a result of following you heart. Keep up the great work Mate!
I use the same linux distro . I agree Linux distros bring old hardware a now life
I am new to linux. It was easy to learn and understand.
Hi Robert.
What is Davinci, and what can you use it for?
Thanks for the video. Honestly, for someone who actively describes themself as not liking to mess with a bunch of settings etc the fact that you are working with Linux is a good sign that Linux has actually come a long way.
Some thoughts on your viewpoint re: Hardware -- YES, to some extent the OS, will have an effect on performance. BUT, when you wander from simple business applications into the realm of Workstation Applications, such as Video Rendering, AI Training and Model Usage, Engineering Applications etc, you will find that your hardware will be the single most important thing.
You will need a beast of a graphics card, and a nice fast CPU, and fast hard drives. You can "still" use Linux on such a machine. But, for example, without a beast of a graphics card, and really great hard drives, you will find that video editing is going to be slow. Consider using NVMe hard drives -- they have really great speed. Make sure you have 32 GB RAM. Buy a great video card.
So sure, you can use an older server -- but, I wouldn't expect much without adding NVMe drives and a video card.
cheers mate
Perfect, thank you.
Hey a while ago you spoke of redox flow batteries.. my favorite topic. I was wondering if you would be interested in testing out sodium silicate painted 3d parts for flow or static flow batteries! I can't help but think the accuracy of printing with the robustness of glass like material could be a fun venture?
i was thinking of doing something on flow batteries mate - so yes it would lol
this is a good opportunity to check out pc-builds bottleneck calc
cheers mate
Is there good software for CNC routers to run on Linux?
LinuxCNC or bCNC.
Meanwhile I'm here daily driving Linux and switching between Cura, Prusa and Orca slicers with no problems.
For Neptune4, remember to include "PRINT_START" in the start G-code to make sure the bed leveling mesh is loaded and applied during the print (it might be by default, depending on what version of firmware you have, but it doesn't hurt to load it explicitly).
I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but I use Simplify3d so I would have to either get used to an inferior slicer or buy another license to put on a Linux system! I might just do it just to mess around with open source slicers just to see how they stack up now a days!
RMS FTW.
I've got a Beelink S12 Pro bolted to my monitor (about 10W resting power usage). I used to have a full setup with a powerful graphics card until the PSU died and I parted out on ebay. For what I use my PC for it's much more reasonable (cost onlyu £170) Comes with a Windows 11 licence but it runs better on Linux
Valve nas steamdeck doing amazing things with linux,gates is 3v1l