Readit Newslazulicurio commented on The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out blog.freecad.org/2024/09/... · Posted by u/jstanley
It's also worth noting that they work with FreeCAD and make pushes to them too. So using either helps both. I've been very happy with the developers and they are very responsive on GitHub.
Just to start, I want to acknowledge that the problem space is tremendously complex; the FreeCAD developers have put in a lot of effort and it's amazing that a project like FreeCAD exists at all.
Not trying to disrespect the other FreeCAD developers, but it seems like things have improved remarkably since ondsel started taking a more active role.
The project seemed to exhibit a (common) impulse to prioritize extensibility too much. The "workbench" architecture and python API let you do some really neat stuff if you're willing to dig into the weeds. But, from the perspective of a community outsider (so take it with a grain of salt), the development process seemed to be a good example of Conway's Law in action. The workbenches let everyone have their own sub-projects to manage without stepping on each other's toes. This led to a lot of resulting complexities, inconsistencies, and instabilities, which made the approach a net negative (imo) in terms of tradeoffs.
With ondsel, there's been more focus on holistic improvements and getting the individual modules working together more smoothly, which I greatly appreciate.
Matterport is the industry standard for real estate walkthroughs, but it’s not cheap.
On the other end of the spectrum, and possible the easiest way to get something up and running, is the web version of SweetHome3D [1]. It is rough in some places and somewhat limited, but it has been around for ever, and still has a lot of potential. It’s also available as an add-on for HomeAssistant.
Seconding the plug for sh3d. And the source is relatively accessible if you want to make modifications---I patch my personal copy to allow zero-height walls and floors which can make doing more complicated geometry easier.
Tangentially related, Firefox-from-snap completely broke for me recently in a way that I couldn't be bothered to diagnose ("error: cannot communicate with server: Post http://localhost/v2/snaps/firefox: dial unix /run/snapd.socket: connect: no such file or directory").
It prompted me to finally wipe Snap fully from my system and install Firefox from the Mozilla PPA. The only other Snap app I currently use is IntelliJ, and that has issues in its Snap packaging according to the mighty Serge, so I'm switching to a tar.gz install for that.
Does the mozilla ppa provide the www-browser metapackage?
If not, you might run into [this bug](https://old.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/uj58i5/psa_fix...)
FWIW my solution was using equivs to create a dummy package to satisfy www-browser and installing that.
lazulicurio commented on Firefox got faster for real users in 2023 hacks.mozilla.org/2023/10... · Posted by u/kevincox
Since upgrading to 118 I've had random hangs of firefox every few days. Not clear why, no CPU or swap. All windows just freeze and need a "killall firefox", which works - shutting firefox down cleanly.
Of course it's impossible to find anything anywhere about this due to search engine spam
Was fine for years until 118 and is rare enough to not be able to reliably reproduce it (and thus do things like disabling extensions, running the pain of a new profile, etc), so I guess I have to live with it, as life's too short.
Are you on linux? For a while I've been running into issues with FF where it will randomly halt repainting after switching tabs. The process is clearly still responding to keystrokes and mouse events, but the ui is mostly frozen.
I've also been running into an annoying issue where hover menus will randomly stop working---it seems like the mouseout event is firing before the click event is handled.
But all in all not annoying enough to switch.
I hope that with them gone the project doesn't revert to the mindset of "everyone gets their own fiefdom (workbench) to manage" that's resulted in instabilities and fractured user experience in the past.