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What 3D printing-related software runs on Linux?
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I'm running a flatpak version of Orca Slicer on Kubuntu 24.04. Personally, just prefer Orca after trying out a couple others. Found that it worked under Mint, and the 24.04 versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Newer distros using Wayland instead of X11 seemed to have issues (which some people running Cura or Prusa slicers saw as well). Not everyone, but plenty of folks had software lock up at startup, or the build plate preview would just be a blank page. Might be a video driver problem, possibly depending upon if you use nvidia or AMD. I couldn't find any real answers.
If there's a slicer you prefer, you may have to find a Linux distro that it works under. Or if you are running a distro you're sticking with, try slicers until you get one that runs. It seems to be hit or miss for people without any good reason for what does and doesn't work.