Intel faces negative developer feedback regarding Quartus Prime, with users describing poor documentation, difficult installation, and a clunky workflow compared to AMD Vivado.

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        "excerpt": "Can you give some examples of what doesn't work?\n\n I have a lot of complaints about Quartus, but it does generally work well enough. Most of the complaints I have are around some of the more advanced features / tools that you only really need in a professional environment when working on larger designs.\n\n Documentation can be hit or miss, depends on where you're looking. They do tend to improve it",
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      "[post] Documentation is very bad. Even now I can actually do some work on it, I have to stick to the GHRD as a baseline or things won’t work."
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