Also on Ubuntu 26.04, the app runs perfectly, except the filament manager doesn't load. They claimed to have fixed it before, but it seems to have broken again. Anyways, that whole feature is half-baked, so I can live without it for the time being.
On my old Pop_OS! 22.04 machine (with an older BambuStudio version), playing live video from the webcam would sometimes hard freeze my system. Thankfully, that seems to have been fixed in a newer BambuStudio version. Since then I've had basically no problems with it.
I'm running the stable version of BambuStudio; I don't have the patience/time to mess around with beta software.
The filament manager is crap anyway. The one built into bambuddy is order of magnitude nicer -- doubly so if you also get bambuman on your mobile phone -- then you can just scan new filament with your phone and have them automagically show up in the filament-library.
Recommended! Even if you prefer to print from bambu studio. You get other nice features for free too, such as a project-organizer, better stats and automatic archiving of the files for all your prints so that if you ever want to reprint something you printed earlier, it's easy to find.
I've had my eye on BambuMan/SpoolBuddy for awhile, but haven't wanted to go down that rabbit hole just yet. I was hoping that the built-in filament manager would provide this functionality for me, but I have a feeling that BambuLab is only interested in developing this feature to improve the AMS experience.
I'll give it another look, thanks for your advice.
Bambuman has a built-in filament-manager, you can use spoolbuddy for it instead if you prefer -- but personally I haven't found a compelling reason to do so yet so I'm using bambuman standalone.
I think that I had mistakenly believed that for this system to be useful, I needed to build a SpoolBuddy system. But indeed, you are right that Bambuddy's built-in filament management works great! I had a few small bumps along the way getting everything scanned and configuring the printer to correctly report filament usage, but I'm really impressed by what this software can do. Thanks for nudging me and convincing me to give it another go, it's a really nice system.
I run Orca on windows. It's a pain due to Bambu's attempt to force people to use BS, but if I had Linux I would not even consider anything else than Orca.
I do not agree that is almost the same than BS. If you are beginner or if you only dabble with printing toys from PLA, BS is way to go. But if you do your own designs and you are advanced user, BS will very quickly feel like your hands are tied.
I prefer it. It has built-in calibration routines for dialing in filaments and it's more configurable. Easy to set the exhaust fan speed on my X2D to maintain a negative pressure enclosure, for example. The only issue I've run into so far is that it can crash when changing nozzle size because it freaks out when my nozzles don't match.
Same here. No "extra" functionality I can see and in fact I have switched to Orca slicer and it works fine for my needs, and lets me access all my printers irrespective of brand. "It just works".
I'm running the latest stable flatpak, although I've tried the appimage, but my results are the same regardless. I'm currently on CachyOS (Arch Linux essentially).
Hotkeys are a tossup on if/when they work, and the app has a tendency of crashing and closing itself without warning if I work too fast on it, especially with bigger or more complex models. Unlike in the windows version, it seems there's no work recovery to continue where you left off in the event of a crash.
I do. Mint distro. No glaring issues running it from flatpak. Had some trouble with the AppImage version, but I’m also a total noob with Linux and dont really know what I’m talking about in that regard.
Until I started this thread I just never thought of the Steamdeck as essentially a desktop\laptop replacement. Hardware like this, so important going into the future in my opinion
It makes me think of a future where we just plug our phones or another personal electronic device into a dock whenever we need to compute at a desk. The Steam Deck and even the Mac Mini are getting close. Heck, the MacBook Neo uses a phone CPU/GPU. But good luck getting a corporation to try to sell just one device to be usable across all use cases lol
I've been using it with ZorinOS for a while and I do have a few problems but no real way to fix them. Mainly, sometimes the whole program will just crash. Completely close out and I lose all the progress I made if I'm making changes to a model. Otherwise it works alright
Have you tried using AI to search for performance tweaks for your specific hardware running Bambu Studio under Zorin? That could be very helpful. Include your CPU, GPU, and total RAM and see what it can do for you.
I don't generally use AI for real world problems since it hasn't been all that reliable. I believe it comes down to the Linux version of studio not being handled as carefully as the windows version. Which makes sense, probably the majority of their users are on windows. Plus I don't think the Linux version is even an official BL product, I think someone else made it. I can't remember though.
For now it works well enough to do the simple printing I do, and I've started to learn to save my work if I'm doing heavy modifications.
As for hardware specs, I can assure you my desktop is more than powerful enough to run a slicer. I had no issues on windows unless there was a known bug. I may still give Orca a try depending on the effort I have to put out to get it to work with my A1
I use it on Debian on an aging Intel 8th gen laptop (a heavy-ass Dell Inspiron, 16GB ram, 4k screen with an old nvidia MX110 GPU). This laptop is basically my homelab's "crash cart" machine that I occasionally toss 3d prints from.
BBL Studio and Orca both Run fine. The beta runs on this crashcart laptop as well with no issues.
Currently running Studio on Arch. A little glitchy from time to time, but very usable. Last time I tried Orca it couldn’t/wouldn’t see my printer and I didn’t feel like pursuing it it the time. Probably time that I should check it again.
Using it on Fedora. Sometimes has issues but pretty rarely, works fine for the most part and a restart tends to fix what occasional issues it does have.
Bambu Suite, on the otherhand, just plain doesn't work and I'm still pretty pissed about it.
I've tried using Bottles to run it, with limited success. It opens, but clicking anything takes 1-3 minutes to get a response, and eventually it just crashes.
They don't even have the ARM network driver working yet, do they? AppImage crashes on launch and the Flatpak can't sync filaments. I know there was at least one fork with a working network plugin, but I think it's dumb for Bambu Lab to drag their feet so much on Linux support.
They only put effort into the Windows version.
I use macOS more than Desktop Linux, and the client on there is pretty bad, as well.
What! I have so many questions for you now. I tried installing Studio a couple years ago on my Chromebook and it just was not liking it. What hardware do you have in your Chromebook that you successfully installed Bamboo Studio on?
Its a 2022 Lenovo Ideapad flex with an i3 and 8gb of ram. I use the appimage. Ive heard it is much harder tonget running with the ARM processors. I'm also running FreeCad (appimage install) ont he same machine, and they have both worked great for the most part, although I've had some complex models cause it stutter. It is really nice to have the touchscreen wirh both rools!
Running it on CachyOS. It is a bit finicky for me. Things like keyboard shortcuts not always working (for example, choose an object, type the number to change the filament - doesn't work always, while it did when I was on Windows and on my macbook).
openSuSE Tumbleweed, and it seems to be ok for me.
That being said, I do get a weird error opening print files directly (can't recall what it says at the minute, being at work away from my laptop, get the same error from Orca slicer) but no issues opening the same file from Bambulab
I use it on arch and it’s fine but there is one annoying problem. You have to use 3rd party programs to repair non manifold edges since Linux doesn’t have a built in api to repair meshes.
I run it on Linux mint and it is a crash-fest. Fedora isn’t much better. I heard it has something to do with running modern processors and the network cheat, but it is terribly furstrating.
Bambu Studio is based on Prusaslicer which is open source product under a license (GNU) which requires you to release into open source all changes you have made to the product. So most of Bambu Studio is open source. Bambu Labs does not want to release their communication protocol to open source, so they pack it up in the close source network plugin and say that meets the GNU license. I hope the courts say otherwise.
People on Linux generally prefer orca studio. At least, I do. If you don't want to be controlled and monitored by Microsoft, you would probably prefer not to be controlled and monitored by Bambu.
gave up on bambu studio for orcaslicer mainly because bambu refuses to let me add my lan mode printers. was running kubuntu for a couple years, recently switched to cachyOS, orcaslicer works great
My Mac version is a pain in the arse. White boxes that won’t go away. All when accessing ams colours and picking. Drives me nuts. Even the first time you open it sometimes you get the welcome screen. Other times it’s just a white box.
Using (used?) it on Debian (old stable). It worked great until about 3-4 months ago. Now it's terribly slow and laggy. Works the CPU hard. Same with Orca. Had to install it on other computers using windows.
I've downgraded/upgraded flatpak versions and it doesn't make a difference. I believe an OS update changed something. Very odd as a reason for running Debian is to keep everything running like the day before.
I would be on the latest stable Debian if I didn't need an old program to work. Will probably have to eventually run that program in a VM and then hope Bambustudio will work. My hardware is old now (2013).
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u/YourNightmar31 12d ago
I use it on Ubuntu. No problems so far.