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  • Personally, I use FreeCAD. I kinda like the unintuitivness a bit. You have to watch a few tutorials and read the wiki or manual, and getting into the whole workbench stuff and what can be used where thing. But in the end you are less likely to mess up so badly as two of my classmates on a 3D printing related subject once did. They extruded literal side planes only and used poorly made sketch with no calibration or constraints whatsoever. They also used wrong tab in Fusion for that, so they wasted like 4 hours, because the software had no reason to warn them and they had no reason to look for answers. In FreeCAD, they wouldn’t even get past creation of the sketch. I didn’t when I tried it out for the first time. : )

    Also, I find some UI elements in FreeCAD to be better than in Fusion. The only way that I could find to have some variables was to open a dialog window that I can’t just deselect and then come back when needed. In FreeCAD I can either use Spreadsheet or VarSet.

    And the best thing was performance. My laptop was really struggling to run Fusion even in a window that was barely 720p. FreeCAD has no issue runnin on 4k external screen even though I only have integrated Intel GPU.

    For me personally, FreeCAD is the winner. But feel free to use whatever you like. There’s even a project that aims to run Fusion on Linux. You can check that if you prefer that. Although a friend of mine had some trouble getting it to work 100%.





  • Personally, I do not like the default launcher on most phones. It makes your home screen look messy. But I can’t get used to pure minimal either. I still want it to be a bit of an eye candy.

    That’s why I fell in love with TinyBit Launcher. When you spend enough time ricing it it can look really good.

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  • Currently studying Computer Engineering. I did manage to get most stuff working without needing Windows.

    It came usually at the cost of extra work, but I’d say it was worth it. So far I even got to writing makefiles for C++ projects targetting some Atmel chip (Microchip Studio is Windows only). And in some cases I even found better tools than what they privided us with.

    Unless you need some very very specific program or run into some wierd constrains you will be fine.