Give Horizon a try - it's really much better!
Kicad is way better than it used to be.
> (like if you drag a component in the schematic it doesn't bring it's wires with it!)
This is usually different modes in a schematic editor, because often "bringing the wires" does more harm than good. The default is different in KiCad from most-- "g" to bring wires, drag to not.
FreeCAD is great and very capable (I used Fusion 360 before) if you spent more time with it and switch to glass add-on and other tweaks. Program defaults make it unappealing.
Solidworks has a Community Edition now, that's free for Hobbyists:
https://www.solidworks.com/support/community-download#no-bac...
That edition seems to have the stuff that most Hobbyists would be after. :)
Also, unfortunately it seems to already require a licence key of some kind to download. How do you even get one of those?
There's a reddit thread about it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SolidWorks/comments/iv3ocg/solidwor...
Someone posted a key, but I don't feel like stealing theirs (may as well pirate it if I'm already stealing license keys).
I've just emailed their customer support people to find out what's going on.
Hopefully they haven't changed their mind about giving people access to Solidworks for free. A decent alternative to Autodesk's Fusion 360 is kind of needed. ;)
You may need to choose "Maker" in the user type drop down too (unsure).
When trying it quickly after receiving the email, it seemed to work fine. :)
https://discover.solidworks.com/3dexperience-solidworks-make...
:/
They immediately began spamming it. Ugh.
Lost all interest in it at that point. They really don't seem to understand their audience.
Since we're on the subject of free "Community Edition" CAD software, Siemens Solid Edge seems decent (but no CAM):
https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/soli...
Should be completely fine for 3D printing. :)
If you want to do simple CAD e.g. for 3D printing and you must use FOSS then I would recommend SolveSpace instead. It has some awkward flaws (most notably there's no bevel/chamfer feature) but aside from that it is much much better and easier to use than FreeCAD.
If you don't want to punish yourself by using FOSS then I would either way use Fusion360 and put up with their recently gimping of the free version, or simply pirate Solidworks. It's still by far the easiest CAD software to use, though the latest versions are getting kind of bloated.
FOSS CAD is not in a good shape yet.
Off topic, but until recently I would have said the same for EDA. Kicad may be powerful but it was also apparently designed by a UX sadist. Even if you are really familiar with other EDA tools it still makes approximately zero sense and has loads of weird "features" (like if you drag a component in the schematic it doesn't bring it's wires with it!) Eagle and gEDA are even worse.
Fortunately there's at least one decent FOSS EDA program now: Horizon EDA. There's also LibrePCB which I haven't tried, but Horizon is good and pretty easy to use (it has a rather confusing and over-complicated component/gate system but you can mostly ignore that).