I am planning to buy MNT Reform laptop and use it as my main machine. I’ve reviewed the community and other online sources, and have decided it will be sufficient for my needs. One concern I have is, if anyone has experience using Bambu Lab software with MNT Reform OS? There is Linux package at their website, which might work. I’m using my 3d printer on regular bases and if it’s software suit is not compatible, I should consider keeping another machine around for that purpose. Thank you in advance.
reform-tools because unstable has firefox while testing/stable has firefox-esr and because Debian has ezurio-qcacld-2.0-dkms while the MNT repo ships the reform-qcacld2 hack
Linux because there are patches which are not upstreamed yet
Other than that, what you are getting is plain Debian unstable and you should be able to do everything on it which you can do on any other Debian unstable machine.
The limiting factor here is not that we changed 4 out of 40k packages but that the processors used by MNT Reform computers are arm64 while many desktop and laptop computers are x86 instead. The binaries offered on their github seem to be for x86 computers so you might have to compile it yourself. Would you like me to attempt doing this for you or do you think you can do that once you have your Reform?
Unfortunately Bambu still haven’t done an arm64 version of their network plugin on Linux so whilst the slicer works you basically can’t send anything to the printer.
Thank you for the information. I ordered MNT Reform Classic yesterday from MNT Shop, so it will take time for the delivery to take place. @josch I can take the offer once it arrive and I had enough time to get used to it, if still valid
Your comments are on point, it’s arm64 processor and I didn’t account for it at the time of posting. However, I do have RPi 4, which I can use to test Bambu Studio and see what can be done. Reading the mentioned sources, there is someone who made a progress toward making it run. One thing for my printer model A1 Mini (and likely others of the same manufacturer), it has SD card to store print files. So, as long as I can run their software even without network capabilities, it should be fine to load the file to the storage card.
Thank you again for the quick response. If I find usable solution on networking part for the RPi4, will post here.
I’m glad to report that was able to install Bambu Studio on the RPi 4. It works well: create, manage and slice projects. Then export ready to print (sliced) file to SD card (other storage media). Only thing not working is the network plugin, which I would not pursue for now.
