I think the one I use the most is printables for mechanic parts and cults 3d for minis. I used to use mainly myminifactory, but they added a managing fee and that’s made me avoid the platform since you pay a bit extra than the published price.

I’ve been trying to avoid makerworld, and creativity cloud since they seem to go in the direction to make it slowly more closed.

Thingiverse was fine, although it seemed a bit abandoned, but if you were looking for older models sometimes it’s the only place.

I think it will be fine for a year or so, but they will push some kind of subscription or premium features.

The community on thingiverse used to be more about sharing and open source, and that seems to have moved mainly to printables. At least we have that option (for now).

That’s why I haven’t been able to identify what’s wrong. The get stuck usually when opening or when trying to save/open a file. So I’m guessing there’s some dependency that is not working correctly.

Otherwise they run fine when not interacting with anything. I don’t really know what’s happening and at this point I think it may be easier to just have a clean install and start over

Maybe this is why I’ve been having issues with several applications after some random update months ago.

It was fine for years, but lately I’ve been having several app open really slowly, mainly appimages.

Sadly most manufacturers still don’t care about linux support. If you are lucky sometimes there’s a community alternative. But even then some of the advanced features may not work.

What you can do is check on their website which drivers they have available, and avoid buying stuff that doesn’t have Linux support when possible.

With more adoption I hope that it becomes increasingly available, although in practice I’ve seen several products drop their Linux support due to low users. 😢