It might not be quite what you want, but sweet home 3D is quite useful for playing with arrangements.
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Revit is a pretty commonly used architectural tool now.
Bricscad, or maybe Graebert Ares, or nanocad. No libre app can compete at all but these are solid. And much much cheaper. And some run on linux
Uuh this looks promising, thanks mate
DraftEdge for a direct AutoCAD replacement, Revit if you are really serious.
If you decide to stick with AutoCAD, the educational version is free. It just leaves a watermark on your project prints.
I have used DesignSpark Mechanical for 3D printer design, but I am sure it could be easily used for 2D Blueprints.
I have been using their free version for years now. It does a pretty good job.
https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/subscriptions-pricing-page
If your going to be doing any electrical diagrams or other charts. Draw.io is another good one. https://github.com/jgraph/drawio Although I do sometimes can be frustrating drawing lines to other objects. So I don't know if it would give it a 5 star rating.
I have tried to use the open source CAD programs, but they never worked that well for me.
SketchUp is good, for what it is, but again it's never been for me.
If you want 2D like AutoCAD then I have found SolidEdge from Siemens to be good. There is a free version, and I think a paid one too. I only used the 2D version but a quick search just now seems to show a community edition of the 3D too.
SketchUp for doing home based building stuff that's not super detailed is a pretty good option. it has kind of a wacky interface but, if you're trying to build in 3dbehat normally gets built with plywood and 2x4s, it's a pretty good solution
Sketchup is a fairly simple 3D modelling software which I find good for home design/modelling. It has a free version.
LibreCAD could be worth considering. I don't think it's possible to update dimensions in it though so I expect it would be tedious in a large project like a home remodel.
I guess you mainly use Autocad for creating 2D sketches? Maybe Inkscape could already be enough for that. It's not really made for engineering stuff but you can add plugins to add dimensions for example and make accurate drawings relatively easily.
The only one I would consider a candidate compared to autocad, would be SketchUp.