I’m wanting to move my main machine over to Linux, but I’ve heard mixed things about Orca Slicer working with Linux. Can anyone give any advice on either having it work or a Linux alternative with similar functionality?
I’m wanting to move my main machine over to Linux, but I’ve heard mixed things about Orca Slicer working with Linux. Can anyone give any advice on either having it work or a Linux alternative with similar functionality?
It depends on your distro. I have an AnyCubic printer and have to use their derivative of Orca. It only supports Ubuntu 24.04, so I run it in a VM when I need it. There are some weird GTK things with it too. But still functional.
What printer is that? I also have an anycubic printer, and before I flashed it with klipper it worked just fine with regular plain orca slicer.
Orca slicer works okay, but I have the newer Kobra 3 Max and it doesn’t come with the printer profile as of yet. And I still have to use the AnycubicSlicer Next suite to do any remote control. And trying to run it under CachyOS had a lot of visual problems (the Workbench tab shows nothing at all). The command line output is line after line of GTK errors.
By the license, I think they should be obligated to release the source, so if they do that maybe I can help make it less terrible (or at least reverse engineer the remote control protocol).