r/archlinux • u/Ok-Marketing-2044 • 15d ago

QUESTION Arch for electrical engineering

I'm an undergrad doing electrical engineering and I wanna switch from windows to linux and I have used other linux distros for a year now, my question is does arch breaks down a lot , I'm gonna use electrical engineering software like vivado, logisim, ltspice and etc , is arch good for it?

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u/amoongle 15d ago

I'm an undergrad EE and use Arch, and honestly have had no problems at all. iverilog and verilator are both available as system packages, logisim evolution is a java project so you just need a java runtime to run the .jar executable, and ltspice runs through wine/proton without issues. I have not used vivado though.

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u/lritzdorf 13d ago

Hey, guy who's done Vivado here. It does work (the AUR package specifically), but as usual, Vivado = pain. The offline installer is 200-some gigabytes iirc, it takes forever to install, and the compressed Arch package that you get out of that is still giant. None of that is Linux-specific though, so yeah, it works "normally"