Mastodawn

ahhhh why is kicad 10 so buggy

I heard rumours that they're vibecoding now but is it true? I keep crashing, usually when running the DRC. Most recently it decided to "recover" my project by just filling it up with a bunch of garbage files that I had to delete

I'm legitimately considering going back to kicad 9 at this point

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poleguy looking for lost tools

@n3tcat I have a colleague who froze kicad at 4.0.7. At some point, software is good enough.

It's true of hardware too. Laptops from 10 years ago are good enough.

I am using the version 10 kicad, and have found it crashes frequently. I actually reported a crash and it was fixed. But there are clearly others.

4.0.7 opens schematics much faster too.

#Freecad is very crashy too.

I'd like to report all the crashes with useful debug info, but I don't think that process is easy by default.