All EDAs have an horrible and unfriendly interface. Just pick the one that sucks the least
I have to use xPedition at work, and for my hobby projects I chose Kicad which is a model of user friendliness in comparison
I don't agree with that.
Some you can pick up within a few days, depending on your needs.
I have used Altium as well as Diptrace, as well as a whole bunch of other ones for the last 15-20 years, mostly on a professional level.
From Proteus, PADS to Ultiboards, Eagle and what not.
My first question is always what people really need and want?
Altium can be great and all, but IMO it has so many features that even most professionals will never use.
Diptrace is very easy to pick up, very straight forward, still as some weird bugs but they take their community serious.
I see a lot of potential in there.
Recently out of pure curiosity I have been playing with EasyEDA.
From a professional point of view it really lacks some features, but I was amazed to basically copy a whole design over within 2 days.
Never ever used it before. That shows how good a GUI can be.
Most EDA's work more or less than same and with the good/professional ones the GUI can be fully customized.
I said most, because there is one popular exception, and that is KiCAD.
And probably we will get another whole fanboy debate again with different people.
But I am sorry, it is just very silly to make an user interface that is absolute not compatible or similar to ANY of all the big boys that have been around for decades.
I have spend several WEEKS to get things going always ran into major problems and I was unable to fully copy over an old design.
Always had to google search something or even "program" stuff to fix things.
Yes, you can make board if your demands are not to crazy and if you follow strictly a certain work flow.
But if you lost were you are in that work flow, there is not an easy way to get around in KiCAD.
Sometimes you literally can't get somewhere without a keyboard shortcut
At the same time having all these issues and broken GUI they are spending months (years?) on end to make a schematic simulator and auto-routers
It starts to look like a comedy show. I think I will speak for other people that it doesn't really show that you take users serious.
Always coming back with the same message "this is not a real bug or bullet point we can work on, can you define it better".
Anyway, enough ranting I guess, my apologies. It just makes me very cynical when I see things with potential that don't get anywhere.
From the new kids around the block I see more potential in Diptrace, since they take their community actually a lot more serious.
For people who just do easy simple boards, just go for EasyEDA
The last one also saves you a lot of time making footprints since they are directly connected to LCSC