Went down this road as I got stuck with resolving the connection issues.
More good news to share. So I was able to process an offline activation and LightBurn activated without fuss.
After activation, most things are surprisingly boring. I haven’t used LightBurn on Linux previously so can’t directly compare but everything worked for the most part. I had to resize the toolbar and font size, and collapsed the window panes to a single pane to get things to fit. This is likely because of the 900 vertical lines of resolution that it’s running.
For your viewing pleasure:
The inaugural burn:
Additionally, I tried running a camera on the Pi and it proceed to segfault. This may be related to the pulse audio library issue not satisfying something with the QT multimedia library.
So for now I declare this a partial success.
As for next steps I think it would be nice to resolve these two issues:
- pulse audio library not loading
- server connectivity
I would invite anyone with some skills in these areas to get this configured and to see if we can overcome these issues.
[EDIT] - one additional note on performance. Once running, performance was shockingly tolerable even on this humble 1GB Pi3. I wasn’t doing anything crazy but navigation and other basic tasks were only mildly slower than my daily driver. Processing times were slightly longer but nothing intolerable. I see this absolutely being usable as a “sitting in the shed next to the laser” type of solution.