We use a standard system image based upon the host OS. Some of our labs use dual-boot Linux & Windows configuration. Access is managed using Active Directory accounts with home directories stored on a centralized server. (see Infrastructure) We presently use the Xubuntu 20.04 LTS as our preferred distribution and Windows 10 Education Edition. Here is a summary listing of the installed software available on most of our departmental machines:

Linux System Configuration Blender Eclipse Emacs Edge Firefox Ghidra SRE Framework GIMP GITG GODOT Gradle JetBrains IDEs CLion IntelliJ IDEA PyCharm RubyMine Libre Office MARS Mips Emulator MATLAB MPICH2 MPLab X Octave SQL Developer VMware Workstation VS Code Wireshark Languages Supported: Assembly C, C++ Cobol Fortran Haskell Java Lisp Pascal Perl Python

Windows System Configuration Autodesk Software: Inventor Professional Alice Allegro Express Eclipse Ghidra SRE Framework JetBrains IDEs CLion IntelliJ IDEA PyCharm RubyMine JCreator LE Microsoft Office Mathematica MATLAB Python Tortoise GIT / SVN Visual Studio VS Code VMware Workstation Wireshark Languages Supported: Java J# C, C++, C# Lisp Python Visual Basic Only In Specific Labs AnSYS Simulation Software Autodesk Software: Revit Civil 3D Bentley Software Systems Code Composer Studio MPLab X OrCAD SolidWorks Xilinx Vitis