Preaching to the choir, but corporate software is abysmal dogshit (hexbear.net)

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https://www.ni.com/nl-nl/shop/product/multisim.html

^^^^^

The above worthless trash known as "multisim", used for simulating circuits costs 905 EUR and

Doesn't have a linux version
Is missing 90% of new commercially available parts
Doesn't have a method of easily adding those parts (except manually, 1 by 1) (as far as I know)
Has garbage UI (you can only undo 4 times) (adding or removing a single component can easily use up more than 4 moves)
Inconsistent simulations (making the sims work feels like trying to appease a capricious God to not curse you with famine)

The free open source software (qucs-studio) seems to have none of these problems, though I have barely used it.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Same. I can understand why professionals are locked into particular (shitty) tools and that certain features are always going to land in the FOSS equivalent later, but now I'm in deep enough, I:

Also running the arr suite, jellyfin with torrenting and Usenet here. I spent a lot upfront but frankly, I'll probably never have to buy a subscription service again outside of music (I've been too lazy to setup music automatically). I want to get into ripping my own content from blue-ray discs etc but have not had the motivation to work on any personal projects lately

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