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RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 10 months agoI think the thing people wish for was a little bit of polish in their open source tools.
I love kicad, but it used to have some really rough edges in spite of being simpler compared to something like Altium.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
This is the modern “choice”:
Paid software that exploits their own paying customers’ data and pushes regular ads for their own or for other products.
FOSS software that respects it’s users but also is nearly incapable of doing the job it’s supposed to.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The FOSS stuff can do the job. You just need to tweak these 10 config files because it doesn’t come with sensible defaults. Oh, and it’s built against a different version of those libraries. Better downgrade two and upgrade that third one. Actually, just fork and modify the source. Much easier. What were we trying to do again?
Damage@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Ten year must have passed from the last time I had problems with library versions
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, Flatpaks exist for FreeCAD.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, but that’s less funny ;-)
snowe@programming.dev 9 months ago
What’s flatpak and why in the world would I need to know about it in order to use a cad program? Do you see why people don’t use this stuff?