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From: "Lilith Bryant (dark141 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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On 2015-07-01 07:10:41 AM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>   I'm sorry, but you're wrong.  In my case, I am an electronics
> hobbyist, but I've also been a commercial designer for about 25 years.
> I'm betting I'm not the only professional designer here.
> 

Raises my hand as another professional designer.  

Nothing in orbit (yet!),  but I do have hundreds of instances 
of my 2000+ rat designs running in factories around the globe.

I *love* the fact that PCB is at it's core a 2D drawing program.  KISS.

I particularly *love* that lines aren't married to nets.  Every other 
layout program I've tried (including some $$$) make a royal hash of that.  
PCB doesn't tie itself up in knots. 

There's a few annoyances in PCB that I'll getting around to fixing one 
day, but all and all,  it's my pick over even the high $$$ systems.