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by bootloop 1223 days ago
I always used EAGLE for my PCB work in the past but just recently I started a new project, after many years not touching any PCB design, for which I need to make a PCB and gave KiCad a go.

Most of the things work fine but the managing of part libraries I found extremely confusing and not really intuitive: e.g. different library file formats for schematics and footprints or the standard libraries being located and hidden behind some PATH variables..

Regardless, I think it is a great piece of software and I am looking forward to make more use of it in the future!

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I'm in the same situation. Did a bunch of stuff with (legal, not cheap) EAGLE in the past. But for my next projects (whenever they come around) I'm planning on KiCad because it's so much more mature now.