>> I have been using KiCad exclusively for home projects now for about 2
>> years. I am now on my 3rd board design with it. For work purposes, I
>> have used Mentor Graphics PADS and Orcad. I actually like KiCad better
>> than either of those packages and it seems to me that KiCad is
>> actually seriously catching up to these professional layout programs.

> Often "like" and "get things done" do not quite agree with each other.

That's liable to be a matter of semantics.
To ears attuned to western word usage (and my antipodean ones) the
term "like ... better" would usually be taken to mean "overall does a
better job for me in a given set of circumstances. ie in most cases
(not all) "like better" and "get things done" do in fact quite closely
agree. More usually they MAY not agree, but in probably the majority
of cases when technical and/or quantitative performance is being
compared, they do.

As per the following examples "like xxx better" can be used when
comparing food wraps, describing quality of wrenches, comparing
razors, comparing hard drive reliability, and assessing relative
merits of tyres in a range of applications. Subjective aspects are
relevant in many cases, but overall merit for the task by some measure
or other is usually the dominant consideration.

eg
Plastic wrap
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=3D20071006232820AAxEPDl

torx head wrenches
ASKED re quality
Got "like better as a response"
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/290431/570205.html?127614989=
7

Razors
Agh. Video review agh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DyM49Ed7tkyc

Hard drive reliability
Asked re reliability.
Got "like better"
http://fixunix.com/storage/204224-hitachi-seagate-160gb-notebook-hd-looking=
-reliability.html

"I like Michelin better"
Cycle tyre overall -
http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-568749.html
Better bike front tyre - http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?p=3D4434954
Bang for the buck bike tyre -
http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-16233.html
Best for my Mercedes -
http://mercedesforum.com/forum/mercedes-e-class-9/michellin-pirellis-my-e42=
0-2899/
Kelly Safari AWR, look/perform meaner -
http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/archive/new-tires-t51098.html



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