About to start my 3D printing journey and I see FreeCAD can become frustrating due to crashes and bugs. Was wondering what software would you recommend that works on Linux?
Tangential: Would it be useful to create a wiki woth these kinds of FAQs in the community info section? I see the Reddit ones have an extensive wiki for example, might be useful here
Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions and clarification, will check all of these out!
Unpopular opinion - I use Onshape (dot com) because it works well and is accessible from all my machines.
Free tier license yadda yadda, it's not FOSS.
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