No offense but Mach3 is pretty straightforward to set up, mostly. The basic stuff.
Installing Linux and LinuxCNC is not really turnkey tech, not even close. Then once you go to a Mesa card, the stepconfig wizard isn't an option, and figuring out how to do it from scratch is FANTASTICALLY difficult. You need to know a lot, although that knowledge comes in handy in a million ways later. No offense but I've noted this. Not only is there not a lot of clear, straightforward examples, even the experts have given me buggy code that won't work as-is until you learn how it works anyways and figure out why it's not doing it. Not complaining, it's free help, but that's the situation. Danny ---- John Alexander Stewart <ivatt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Agree that LinuxCNC is fantastic. > > What gets me is the number of Mach3 users - why don't they switch? Is it > that they are (essentially) computer illiterate, and know only Windows > (barely), or is it just momentum in the home hobbyist field?? > > (I'm lucky in that I was "into" wire-wrapping computers as a teenager (RCA > 1802, Intel 8085...) but I do understand that many of my age group have a > different relationship with computers, so when I ask the first question, > above, it's not meant as a slight against them - it's just - how do we get > more people to use and improve LinuxCNC?) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
