PrusaSlicer. I like the settings better. It's a good slicer.
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2023
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I had some issues early on with Cura and switched to Prusa, and it's always worked well for me.
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.
There's also a community built Flatpak if you're ok with that
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.
There's also Orca and SuperSlicer which are forks of the same code as Prusa.
What is an appimage?
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.
I have no idea. It's like a program that Linux doesn't recognize as a program.
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/
I use the Flatpak version.
Orcaslicer
Preach, best of all worlds
Another vote for prusa here. The recently added organic supports are really awesome. It’s enabled me to print some things I previously would not have attempted.
Prusa slicer, partially because I have a mk3s+ but also because I tried to use cura many times but always several minutes into using it, my entire laptop just shuts off, like the power was pulled, no logs written to disk, no error message. It's the only program to do that and I can't even report an issue because there's no logs I can submit. I assume it's related to taxing my GPU in a way that causes a power related fault.
SLA: Lychee free version bc fuck renting licenses
FDM: prusa slicer bc open source ftw
I used Cura for a few years, then I tried Prusa and my print quality dramatically improved for reasons I have not figured out.
Haha this is exactly my experience. Pusaslicer/superslicer just make such better prints for me and I have no idea why. Despite putting so much effort into my Cura settings, Prusa just prints better out of the box with so little effort.
Another OrcaSlicer user here. Started off with PrusaSlicer and switched over at a friend's recommendation, and honestly am so glad I did (it has a much nicer UI and some really neat features ported over from SuperSlicer).
Cura, I've gone back to Prusa periodically but it has too many features hidden behind simple buttons or percentage sliders for me.
I used Cura about 5 years ago and my experience then was actually the inverse, especially in regards to slicing settings. There were tons of settings buried all over the GUI and you really had to dig for them.
I used KISSSlicer for a while and got into PrusaSlicer. They all seem to have their struggles from time to time. Maybe I'll try out Cura again the next time I run into a wall.
By default all the settings are hidden, it's annoying, but you can show all of them in the settings and then it has a bunch more that I can find equivalents to in Prusa.
Prusa and SuperSlicer.
SuperSlicer, nightly builds from GitHub.
Nightly builds with commits that happen sporadically every few months it seems 😭.
That said, it looks like some action happened since my last build. I'll have to see if the cone slicing thing is fixed...
Cura and my self programmed vase mode slicer
Prusaslicer
Cura. Works for me.
Whichever one works. I switch between Cura and PS. I'm not skilled enough to figure out the differences. I make small adjustments here and there, but IDK what I'm doing. My last print had over extrusion on the top surface, but not the walls, so I switched from Cura to PS and it works now.
Cura has always been my go-to because we used it back in my high school drafting class and I haven't tried anything else since then...
Cura but only because I haven't tried the others yet.
I've only used cura (no particular reason, just what was shown to me and I now know how to use it
However, I've heard good things about both prusa and klipper
Klipper is not a slicer. It's a replacement firmware for the printer.
Makerware. Been trying cura but it's not cooperating with my printer entirely.
Prusaslicer. For resin I combine it with UVtools
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