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I just think they're neat!
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Its the only os with functional cad as well. Freecad is a user hating joke.
I've used several CAD solutions as a toolmaker. And tested even more. All Windows only. I wear the sackcloth and ashes of FreeCAD at home because
1: It's free and I don't need to buy a subscription. Billed monthly or annually-- your choice. I can use FreeCAD as I see fit.
It does NOT require me to store my data in the cloud. I have worked on things that were trade secrets.
If my internet connection goes down I can't access my work with the full ability to manipulate it.
I absolutely detest the clown car UX that is Fusion 360. I don't want to click an icon and get a dropdown menu that's a dozen entries long, then click one of those and getting a submenu that's ANOTHER 6 entries deep. Ain't nobody got time for that shit.
Learning difficult things does not scare me.
Honestly part of the thing that drew me to FreeCAD is it reminded me a bit of CATIA. (Mostly it's the Linux and free part, but the CATIA but helped). It's certainly got its quirks (to put it mildly) but 1.0 has made strides.