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by seanhunter 894 days ago
You could replace the symbolic solving capabilities with wxmaxima[1] (which is free and opensource) and you would also find the linear algebra is waaay faster than mathematica, but the downside is maxima is weird and a bit user-hostile and its visualisation capabilities are kinda janky by comparison to mathematica which produces really nice visualisations.

[1] https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/download.html