We’ve been pondering for a while now on which CAD program to switch to. I’ve been an Eagle Pro user for over a decade. Tried several programs from expensive to mid. Last night I extensively used Kicad 6. No question which to use now. Kicad 6 is far and away the best. Not to mention its free. free is not why we’re switching. We are very impressed with every aspect of Kicad 6. I haven’t even tried the very latest which I believe is v6.0.1.Thank you to the development team. I use Kicad in Win10. Others here are in Ubuntu. We all agree Kicad is the way to go.
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Welcome,
6.0.2 
6.0.1 & 6.0.2 are basically bug fixes on 6.0.0
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Have you imported Eagle projects and continued working on them or re-used parts or groups from old projects?
Just to look at them. Kicad will be all new projects.
What I missed in KiCad V5 was:
- Possibility to hide GND connections (helps a lot during placement),
- Possibility to define bigger clearance between isolated circuits (net class to net class clearance)
V6 solves 1.
About 2 I have seen somewhere that it is solved but you have to write some script-like rules to be used. I have to recognize it, but I haven’t found the time yet.
If I will have it working than I know nothing of any of my other needs.
I’ve never used Kicad prior to v6. And just today going to start a new project. One thing though, no time at all to get up to speed coming from Eagle.
Another thing, we are not interested in anything but the usefulness of a stable version. So no tinkering, no modifying, nothing. And v6 is great 'out of the box"
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