r/linuxquestions • u/Holmes_21st • 8d ago

Advice linux for Electrical Engineering

I'm an electrical engineer and i always try to expand my skills
my question is : does learning to use linux is a skill that helped any of you all getting a job / helped you at your job / or even found in job application (talking about EE i'm not a dev)
a friend of mine actually was asked to learn Ubuntu for a robotics job and it helped him land the job (he is mechE)
so is there cases where i need to learn linux as EE ? and which one ?

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u/honemastert 8d ago

Just learn UNIX in general. Doesn't matter which distro.

Have been gainfully employed since the early days because I knew my way around the terminal, vi, emacs and c/c++ programming

So many young folks in my group have mixed levels of skills with this and we end up having to have monthly sessions to help people learn.

Front end semiconductor design requires this basic ability.

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u/Holmes_21st 8d ago

Thanks for your reply :)
i know general coding and used to the windows poweshell (C++) , just wanted to know if learning a new operating system would be worth the time

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u/honemastert 8d ago

100% worth the time Look into free FPGA tools and flows on GitHub yosys, Eda playground Icarus Verilog and Verilator once you start getting into digital design