X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj AT delorie DOT com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: alternatives (was Re: [geda-user] New gEDA/gaf features) In-Reply-To: (message from John Doty on Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:53:10 -0700) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 12:57:46 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk John Doty writes: > But why, in 2017, would a new user not choose KiCAD for that? I tried Kicad once. I didn't like the way the GUI worked. Silly analogies aside, the two toolchains work differently, and people choose whichever one works best for them. Just because they don't use the tools the way YOU use the tools, and just because you don't understand why they're using the tools, is no reason to drive them away. > Our strength is going the places KiCAD can't. gEDA existed before Kicad - I would say *their* strength is going to the places that gEDA can't.