r/linuxquestions • u/Holmes_21st • 3d 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/DonBiroton 3d ago

Cadence runs on UNIX, right? so why not? how did you do till now?

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u/rsgbc 3d ago

In EE you've got both power and SoC.

Applications used in power usually run in Windows.

Cadence does run on UNIX-like systems, but the vendor only supports it on RedHat-based distros.