Not OP, but that sounds unnecessarily harsh. FreeCAD is much more approachable now than it was few years ago. It's definitely far from perfect, but it's getting

Not OP, but that sounds unnecessarily harsh. FreeCAD is much more approachable now than it was few years ago. It's definitely far from perfect, but it's getting substantially better and we should collectively encourage that. I also realized during that time that my distro was doing a poor job at packaging it to make it work as designed (and I can't fault the packagers for that, it's a highly specialized/niche application after all). The flatpak version seem much more cohesive. If one thing, I'm amazed by how much one can accomplish with FreeCAD given a little patience and perseverance: it brings parametric CAD, drawing projections FEM… to the masses, which, when I was learning that stuff as part of my curriculum, was completely out of reach of most universities, let alone the hobbyist scene. It's an under-appreciated, fundamental, piece of software if you ask me.