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

  1. Doesn’t have a linux version
  2. Is missing 90% of new commercially available parts
  3. Doesn’t have a method of easily adding those parts (except manually, 1 by 1) (as far as I know)
  4. Has garbage UI (you can only undo 4 times) (adding or removing a single component can easily use up more than 4 moves)
  5. 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.

    • Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      I bet they could if literally anyone in any part of the process after this thing has been delivered knew anything about computers.

      Also one these things you navigate with a trackball and a touchpad and it can’t connect to any other machine except through a weird proprietary cable that I don’t think connects to anything with a keyboard. Actually I don’t even think the touchpad lets you do anything except scroll up and down and press enter more slowly than the trackball actually.