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nucleative , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

It sounds like they’re going to rewrite a bunch of code and decided to not invest the capital into Linux.

That’s a strange problem to have these days since libraries like this are often designed to run on all platforms, but what do I know.

But if it’s true that fewer than 1% of users are on Linux and it’s costing them more than other platforms, it makes no financial sense to keep it going.

secret300 , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

So all the people still dumb enough to use windows and mac are making companies leave linux

JustARegularNerd ,

I think this is a bad take, and one that assumes one is superior for using Linux over proprietary alternatives

delirious_owl , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.
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Guess you don’t want any Swiss government contracts

greybeard , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

As a LightBurn user and license holder, this is annoying, but I could see this being a good thing in the long run. Right now, there is very little opensource alternative to LightBurn. As of today, there is a much stronger incentive to make it happen. I’m hopeful this spurs on a modern tool in the open source community that works as an alternative. What LightBurn might have done is save them selves some support overhead and created competition. We’ll see how that works out for them.

nickwitha_k , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

What FOSS alternatives exist? This is exactly the reason not to rely on closed-source for hardware support.

g5pw ,

There’s LaserWeb but apparently it doesn’t support closed source (Chinese) firmware so you’d need to change your laser’s controller…

EddyBot , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

thats a big hit for non-commercial laser cutting enthusiasts
Between Visicut and Lightburn, the later was miles away even with its quirks and testing all sorts of stuff with boxes.py was a lot of fun

bummer

transientpunk , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.
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To our valued Linux users:

Fuck you.

Sincerely,

The LightBurn Software Team

communism , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.
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Crazy to me how developers would rather abandon a project (e.g. the Linux version of their software) than open source it so that the community can continue it. If you’re abandoning it then it’s not generating profit for you anymore anyway, so literally no reason not to open source it. Oh no, are you worried people will use that to build Windows versions for free instead of paying for a licence? Boo hoo.

Psyhackological ,
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If you can’t maintain it let the community do that ESPECIALLY enthusiasts.

rem26_art , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.
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Man i was literally looking into laser cutters like 2 days ago and saw that Lightburn supported Linux. Guess that was short lived.

kent_eh , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

The only reason I paid for Lightburn in the first place is because it’s the only even slightly mature laser software that supports Linux.

Given this news, what are our options?

LagerGRBL seems to be open source, but nobody packages that for Linux as far as I can tell.

And I wasn’t able to find anything else when I was looking last year.

kitnaht ,

Honestly, Lightburn is hella developed. Even stagnated at its current state, it’s still leagues beyond anything else. It’ll continue to be a worthwhile purchase for a long time.

vapeloki ,

This does not help with Ruida Controllers and fiber Lasers. Both things I have at my company and we don’t have any Windows System.

That is such a shame. And since we need to talk over usb, wine will not work either 😞

possiblylinux127 , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

Reverse engineers have entered the chat

rand_alpha19 , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

Many of us at LightBurn are Linux users ourselves, and this decision was made reluctantly, after careful investigation of all possible avenues for continuing Linux support.

If y'all use Linux, then how the fuck do you not know about Flatpak, or even AppImage? Christ.

Sanguine ,

Read the thread they said they have provided appimage for years.

Agree on the flatpak part tho, that would have solved this issue.

rand_alpha19 ,

So then why do they think that they must support every distribution? You would think they would jump on the chance to switch to Flatpak. The reasoning is ultimately pretty poor, so hopefully this isn't a shitty cover for some other decision like layoffs.

Sanguine ,

No idea, not the Dev and dont even know what product this is lol… Go read the thread 🤙

utopiah , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

Doesn’t really matter if it’s not open source anyway. I prefer something open source without Linux support (that can thus have community builds) than something proprietary with Linux support.

mactan , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.

same old excuse. all they need to do is shit out a deb and the distros can all figure out their garbage from there

Telorand ,

Just open source v1.7 and let the community make their “openLight” version. They said they’re moving to custom libraries anyway, and people would be able to keep buying their products, so doesn’t seem like they stand to lose much by going the open source/abandonware route.

makingStuffForFun , to linux in Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.
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I was honestly looking at one. No more.

Are there any open source alternatives?

7eter ,

I was thinking about switching fron LaserGRBL to Lightburn becausethey had native Linux support… Guess I’ll keep LaserGRBL + Wine following the guide in this comment

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