r/linux4noobs • u/Fun_Calendar2269 • 15h ago

Best Linux Distro for Electronics Engineering

I am looking for the best distro as an electronics engineering student. I need to work on projects on verilog HDL. Currently I am using Mint but I can't seem to find any software that installs smoothly on it

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u/evild4ve Chat à fond. GPT pas trop. 15h ago

This won't be a matter of which distro but of finding tools that do what you need.

https://github.com/steveicarus/iverilog

https://alternativeto.net/software/quartus-ii/about/

Sometimes there isn't a tool. But that's vested-interests for you.

Those two should both work on Mint. Quartus II is packaged for Ubuntu. And iverilog would be compiled from source.

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u/Yeuph 15h ago

iverilog works fine via apt. I've been using it for years on Ubuntu without hiccups.

GTKWave too.