FreeCAD was chosen by a trusted, active member of this community who was willing to do the work that was needed at the time. You’ve posted a link to software that is ‘info wall’ protected and, after trying two different browsers, won’t let me download it anyhow.
User error. 
Like I said, if it’s improved enough in the meantime to be useful, or if we end up making it useful, then that’s good too.
Really?! It was free for me, anonymous with no account, and “just works”. Downloaded with Firefox in snap on Ubuntu Studio 22.04. (not a big fan of snap, but that’s how it comes) Installed first try, and works like the YouTube tutorials say.
It was a bit odd to find all of that though - the website isn’t laid out the way I expected, and the tutorials are not well connected to it - but it’s all there.
For you or for me? Did you cross it out because you eventually found what I did? Or are you still having trouble?
Yes.
freaking word limit fluff
Unfortunately, I’ve only started to use it myself, so I’m still bumbling around too. But everything I’ve done so far has worked well…once I figured out how this piece of software thinks. Mostly parametric modelling of some large woodworking projects, then getting dimensions from it.
I have not tried to integrate it with anything outside of its ecosystem, so it’s entirely possible for that to be a deal-breaker. It does import a bunch of standard formats though, so maybe that could be an option…
Just thought I’d mention a possibility, is all.
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I’d like the ability of saving/loading presets for plotting/fabrication output.
Without that, the risk of using the wrong options is too high. Unless you absolutely never change options. But if you use plotting frequently for different use cases, that IS going to happen.
I’m astonished about how many of the wishes in these lists are already there, sometimes even in older versions. This one is in 9.0rc.
People, please at least read the development news thread(s) first.
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I’d like to have a clear separation between “Design Relevant” settings and settings like window position, last open files, etc.
This would it make much easier to have the different config json files under source control.
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The settings relevant to the actual design on the one hand and the settings for each user (UI etc.) are already mostly separated. The .kicad_prl file has the UI stuff and should be left out from version control, backups etc. If you find something which is in a wrong file, you can start a discussion about it in the forum or file it as an issue.
As eelik says, that’s been true for a while. See the file types documentation here for which ones you don’t need under version control.