Subjective take: there’s worse than FreeCAD - sure it’s a bit “old school” but it’s bearable. O. The other hand, the solver has crashed on me so many times… The workbench way of doing things requires some time to get usdmed to, sure, but a crashing solver is far worse.

That’s a lot of words for “I’m too lazy to master the most essential tool of my professional life and keep it updated to my requirements”.

If you don’t want to do it, feel free to pay an Ubuntu support subscription, open a ticket, and get back to work. As you said: you should be working on your problem instead of whining. Or maybe you earn more whining?

There’s a saying that goes like that: “To a bad workman, there’s always bad tools.”

EOL of version 7 is next year in June, you got a nice pile of work here!

And *nix shells a perfect example of the KISS principle.

On behalf of garbage, I loudly protest on this attempt to assimilate it to Powershell.

You can add support contract requirements for some pieces of software coming from vendors with so little confidence in their product that they’re rather have it run on an outdated dependencies environnement. A side effect of the logic you talked about, applied to software vendors.

I usually turn to Nexus 3 in it’s OSS flavor for all my packaging storage and it seems that it has proxy mode that might answer your needs.

Unplug your mouse. Seriously. Do it. It might sound like the “kicking and screaming” method but you’ll learn to rely on your keyboard even for GUI tools and you’ll vastly improve how fast you navigate your computer. You should find yourself more and more in the terminal, obviously, but you may learn also some nice tricks with everything else.