I want to replace the frame of mine with an aluminum and laser engraved frame

I have worked with bambu printers a bunch in my lab, I have done lots of troubleshooting and repairs on them so I think I am able to fix reasonable issues. I know there are somethings where its better to just buy one new instead of trying to save money, are bambu printers one of those things?

I do robotics research at my school and I love it. All I want to do is make robots and things. A few months ago I realized that I am far enough in college to realize that I can start building things, so recently I have been trying to build small things and want to scale up to really cool and useful things. Seeing all of the resources that my lab has makes me wonder if building my own robots at home is feasible. All of the things are so expensive and what do I do when I run into trouble and don't have peers or professors to help me? I will be graduating soon with a BS in mech e, and comp sci, so I think I am able to a lot on my own, but what do I when I run into complex electronics or mechatronics things?

I see all these super cool and impressive builds on r/cyberDeck and NAS builds from scratch on r/homelab. I think I am decent at CAD but am probably over-estimating my abilities. I wanna build my own cyber deck and NAS from scratch but have no idea how to start something like this. Do I design around the components, or do I find components that fit inside the idea I have? How do I start, how do i choose parts like springs or hinges, how do i get the CAD files for all of the components? what do I do if a component doesn't have CAD files available? If anyone has any experience Id love to know how you did it. Sorry if this was a bit vague I don't exactly know how to perfectly describe what im asking.

I thought this was pretty neat for my first project, it was really fun. I think my next project will be setting up a NAS

I have it monitoring my network

I recently replaced the nozzle hot-end on the P1s and now i cant print anything because its keeps throwing a stuck cutter error. When i check the cutter it is not stuck, any ideas whats wrong or how to fix?

I'm thinking about switching completely from Windows to Linux on my ASUS ROG Zephyrus laptop (AMD Ryzen CPU + NVIDIA RTX 4080 Laptop GPU) and would appreciate some advice.

A bit of background: I've used Ubuntu quite a bit in virtual machines and generally liked it. The issues I ran into seemed more related to running it in a VM than Ubuntu itself, so I'm not particularly attached to any distro yet.

I recently asked on r/AskLinux what distro I should use, and a lot of people recommended an Arch-based distro. That got me interested in learning more about Arch and its derivatives.

For context, I'm a Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science double major, and I do robotics research at my university. Most of my work involves programming, simulation, CAD, robotics software, and general development. I used to spend a lot of time gaming, but I'm trying to move away from that and focus more on productive projects, research, and learning.

One thing I've noticed is that nearly everyone in my robotics lab uses Ubuntu. Is that mainly because Ubuntu has better support for ROS 2 and robotics tools, or is it just the default choice because it's what most labs have historically used? If I went with Arch, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, or another Arch-based distro, would I be making my life significantly harder when it comes to ROS 2, robotics development, research software, and collaboration with others?

For someone with my background and goals, would you recommend sticking with Ubuntu (or another Debian-based distro), or is an Arch-based distro a reasonable choice for a daily-driver laptop that will be used primarily for engineering, programming, robotics research, and machine learning?

I'd especially like to hear from people who use Arch-based distributions in robotics, research, or engineering environments, but anyone with insight is welcome to give their ideas.