Orca works just fine on Linux, probably even better than on Windows/macOS, which are a slightly neglected platforms from a dev's perspective.

Prusa and Cura are available on flathub and work fine. AFAIK Orca isn't in the main repo but the flatpak is on their github and works fine for me too.

I use Orca Slicer all the time on my Debian machine. Works great!

PrusaSlicer still works on my 2012 Asus laptop on Ubuntu 22. Use it weekly.

Prusa also works on my nixos 25 machine.

Almost definitely gonna be fine.

Orca on Archlinux user here. Its perfect.

What kind of hack-trash distro are you hearing about problems from?

Orca works great on Debian 13 for me (I installed it as a Flatpak)

SuperSlicer

https://github.com/supermerill/SuperSlicer/releases

I prefer Cura and it has native binaries and Flatpak.

I've been using orca on Linux mint for the past two years without any issues. I used prusa slicer before, but I much prefer how settings are managed in orca. Prusa slicer feels like they stopped giving a shit 20 years ago, it feels so horrifyingly ancient to use.

I've had no problems with Orca Slicer. Bambu Labs tries to crash the entire time it is open.

I just installed orca yesterday! The appimage mostly worked, but it wouldn't actually slice. I removed that, and found it in AUR, installed that version, and it's been working great. It doesn't support my printer, so I can't print directly, but I can save the stl file and then copy that over to print. I made a small plaque yesterday and printed it, and everything worked fine. (Garuda Linux, Arch derivative).

Pick a well supported distro like Fedora or Ubuntu and you're more likely to have less problems with things like that, because if the devs are testing against anything, those will be the distros.

Cura publishes nice Appimages

I'm exclusively on linux, and I'm using PrusaSlicer. It does what I need, and it integrates well with my prusa printer.

I did sniff around, in the name of science, looking at other slicers to see what they offered, but I found no reason to try anything else for now.

Been using Orca on Debian 12/13 for a while now and it's been smooth sailing

Had zero problems with orca.

Both slicers work fine but there are some dpi scaling issues in my experience (both Orca and Prusa) on 4k monitors.

It depends on your distro. I have an AnyCubic printer and have to use their derivative of Orca. It only supports Ubuntu 24.04, so I run it in a VM when I need it. There are some weird GTK things with it too. But still functional.