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by openmapsguy 1175 days ago
You’ll find people frustrated with Prusa too. There was a whole discord dedicated to trying to fix all issues.

People act like having the power supply die, bed probe not being reliable, not having x axis tensioner are all normal. Just print out a bunch of parts from some randoms to fix.

Also Prusas software are forks too so weird thing to call out bambu for.

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What power supply would you suggest Prusa use instead of what they are using? Is Bambu using something better?

Bambu slicer is a fork of Prusa's slicer. Prusa's slicer is a fork of Slic3r. Although perfectly fine it is notable that both Prusa and Bambu make 3d printers while the Slic3r project was just making a slicer.

AFAIK the newer Delta power supplies (black case) are fine. The older mystery meat power supplies (silver case) don't have a good reputation, but they're easy enough to replace with a Meanwell or the newer Delta unit.
> Also Prusas software are forks too so weird thing to call out bambu for.

They've been developing and supporting those forks in house for years, giving back to the community. I don't know about Bambu, but typically other Chinese companies don't really do that.

Maybe I’m lucky, as are the hundreds other Prusa MK3S owners I see on the various forums, but the problems you mention seem to be rare.