I made my first PCB in KiCAD, overall it worked pretty well for the relatively simple board I made. I definitely recommend putting it into OpenGL mode as you g

I made my first PCB in KiCAD, overall it worked pretty well for the relatively simple board I made. I definitely recommend putting it into OpenGL mode as you get extra features like nice autorouting and a smoother framerate. Not sure why design features are tied to the rendering engine but that's just how it is for now. I made all my parts/footprints myself in their editor. The library management is a little convoluted but all it takes is some time on Youtube tutorial videos to get the hang of things. I like that all the kicad files are text and easily version-controlled so I can have my entire parts library and board designs in git and can easily roll back to previous iterations if needed.