You can also buy it as a DIY kit, or simply reference the components list and instructions, and use the firmware, drivers, and software shared.
You can also buy it as a DIY kit, or simply reference the components list and instructions, and use the firmware, drivers, and software shared.
Oh no! How foolish of them to only cater to 98% of the population!
You should also consider the fact that Linux users are hugely overrepresented in such communities, because there is a large overlap between people who, as a hobby, want to make stuff in the physical world and people who want to make stuff in the digital world.
You’re right, there are more Linux users in such communities. How foolish of them to only cater to 95% of the population!
Based on my experience Linux and Mac OS are more or less on par with Windows in the maker community with Windows’ popularity rather decreasing than increasing.
Catering to 95% of the population is one thing, but a DIY lasrer engraver doesn’t cater to a very large market share of Window’s users. I’d guess this might cater to maybe 3-5% of windows users and that’s being generous as hell. On the Linux side this caters to quite a few users as they tend to want to make and support open source. Just my two cents though, have a wonderful day on purpose!
Yeah! Why design a product that caters to your target demographic instead of designing it for people that won’t use it?
Well they probably designed the product for themselves, not anyone else, because that’s usually how open source works. No one goes and writes open source that they aren’t going to be able to use, that would be idiotic.
Linux users when unpaid foss devs dont cater to them specifically:
I see some of us don’t bother mixing the kool aid and just snort the crystals off the kitchen counter.
most of the population doesn’t even own a computer, much less the aptitude or will to build a DIY laser engraver
It sounds like you just described all of the people that are not the target market, as opposed to PC users… that would use pcs, with software to drive a laser.
My first job out of University was for a CNC laser and turret company and you’d better believe 100% of their control systems ran on Windows.
But I suppose I can agree with you that it would be very hard to operate one of these without a computer?
Oh, extremely!
The cad plotting software I’ve used for laser engravers was Windows-based, but I didn’t consider myself any sort of user of any OS to sit in a chair and burn logos into hearing aids.
I wouldn’t think any major company would be DIY-ing anything, and be more likely to purchase it readymade. The US taxpayer pays for the writeoff anyway.
IMO, for hobbyists, for tinkerers, for DIYers, make it run on anything. There’s no reason not to.
I would certainly expect linux ports to get off the ground, and I don’t see any reason it would be confined to Windows land. It just seemed disingenuous for folks to be getting mad at the guy to point out that the software being written for Windows first is targeting the largest possible audience.
Down voted to all hell downloaded all hell but you’re not wrong.
Windows has less than 80% market share. Not because of Linux, but because MacOS rapidly gained market share since Apple released the M1