Linux lie: "We have CAD programs"

Under Windows we can use horrible AutoCAD or decent SolidWorks. In the latter it is a piece of cake to design, as it is intuitive and "figures it out" for the designer: snaps primitives to the significant points (end, middle, tangent, etc).

Under Linux we have LibreCAD. I just tried to use it after using the above softwares after 25+ years of my engineering career. How naive I was, thinking that since I knew AutoCAD, any CAD would be the same. It would not.

I am staring at LibreCAD for an hour now, but I still cannot for the life of me figure out how to modify a line. I managed to create a fillet between two lines, but how can I specify its radius? What does the selection mean? Things can be selected, but there is no UI for editing their properties.

So far I enabled all toolbars to no avail. My question to the exceptionally genius open-source developers: do you ever think? Do you ever stop, before you develop, and do you ever ask yourself the question: why do you want to develop something? Are you not developing for your users? Then why do you never think about them? You truly never do, as if you did, then you would have thought about mimicking the existing UI flows of the existing CAD programs, to make the learning curve not look like a hockey stick!!!

QCAD... OMG, do not get me started! The same genius degenerate designed the QCAD and LibreCAD toolbars. All of the important toolbars come OOB disabled, and the user has to go and enable every fucking toolbar!!! And to add insult to injury, when enabling drawing primitives toolbars, they overlap and hide the previously enabled ones. Do you, fucktards, ever test???

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