If you want something to just print without tinkering, the new Bamboos are what’s hot right now, but if you want to learn and tinker with 3D printing, I wholeheartedly recommend Prusa. I followed 3D printing for years before finally deciding to buy one and I got a Prusa MK3S+ early last year and it has been a workhorse. So much so that I just bought a 2nd one a few months ago. You can buy the kit for cheaper and put it together yourself and you’ll learn a lot about how they work. I’ve got tons of mods done to mine plus a printed enclosure for one and I’m working on the 2nd one. The main selling points for me is they are open source and Prusa the company and owner are really involved in the community.

They also run printables.com which is a huge repository of print files. Also Prusaslicer is their slicing software that works great. Lots of people use it even without Prusa printers. They can be finicky at times, but I think that’s all printers really. Good thing about Prusa is everything is replaceable or printable and aftermarket mods are plenty. (Revo nozzles especially if you like to switch nozzle sizes often). I just like how open they are and how heavily involved in the community they are. That means so much more to me than a “just works” printer. If you do go with Prusa, they just came out with the MK4 which has lots of improvements. I’m also planning on picking up the XL sometime when I have extra monies. Shoot me a DM if you want to chat about it.