
"Alas, if you had only taken this on a little earlier I could have avoided the Diptrace commercial license upgrade." Though both in college and at work everyone did layout on X terminals, which was an entire clunky ecosystem that I never entirely adapted to (editing config files to get the backspace key to work.). We had a couple of engineers in our department who took the bull by the horns, I should have too.

Having those folks around actually burned me pretty bad on my first board, I didn't know what I (and they!) didn't know, and I found it weird to be asking / ordering others to do stuff. The formality of it all is what kept me away from picking it up.

"I avoided it for years because my company had dedicated people to do layout for us, and from what I saw it was not trivial to learn." - pitts8rh
