Thank you! I've muddled through GIMP, and was muddling through Blender anyway, so more than happy to muddle through FreeCAD. It has certainly turned out that the way to do things in FreeCAD was very different than the way I expected to do them, but so far it appears to be able to do what I want it to do, and saved me hours of headaches w/ corrupted Blender STL exports.
I did have some processes crash on my little 2-in1, but it turns out those weren't the processes I needed to run anyway.