EE/CE dual-major checking in. There's not much in the way of _necessary_ softwares; the one off the top of my head is the software that the Analog Discovery 2 uses (it's called Digital Waveforms) but the binary is at least available to d/l on their website or from the AUR.
If you have not taken ECE109 yet, there's a dumb Java virtual machine you have to run in order to write programs for the LC3 architecture. . . otherwise you might need to use MS Word / Google Docs for ENG331 because every instructor wants a .docx of every assignment for some reason

src: I've done my HW on a W541 running Arch since I got into the curriculum

I hate to be that guy, but is that

Software gpl compatible. Sorry wifi cut out

If you mean
>is that Analog Discovery 2 software GPL compatible
That's a big fat no. bins are distributed gratis but source code is not
It's fine though since [spoiler]the BSD 3-clause license is clearly superior to any version of the GPL[/spoiler]

If you're going for a complete FOSS build on your machine, I'm going to warn you that you'll have a hard time using your computer. But go ahead, don't let someone on the internet boss you around
#flip

I have yet to have any problem with my completely free computer. Most of the software I use is free anyway. Also BSD 3 is GPL compatible which is fine in my books, probably to the dismay of RMS. Thanks for the help, I'll end up just installing it on an external usb to keep
>muh freedoms

what's the best $EDITOR

Vim, but only if you know how to quit it. The true challenge of our time.

From: patl@athena.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)
Subject: The True Path (long)
Date: 11 Jul 91 03:17:31 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs,alt.slack

When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
*and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like,
'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor
that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
---

Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first
alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed
because it's ED!

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Here's a pretty cool editor
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune

>>6907
Does it support plugins? It seems pretty good though.

hello linux thread, I just spent more of my precious youth debugging an e-mail system. fuck all I needed was 1 line
Now everything works and I'm really upset.

[spoiler]mutt[/spoiler] is a shite program and the debugging AUTH LOGIN is non-existent. I'd be better off using alpine

maybe I'll feel better in the morning