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> Some developers enjoy a graphical IDE worlds, keyboard shortcuts + mouse Many devs using Linux do too. Every single one out of many many dozens of Desktop En
by dualogy 9y ago
> Some developers enjoy a graphical IDE worlds, keyboard shortcuts + mouse
Many devs using Linux do too. Every single one out of many many dozens of Desktop Environment and/or Window Manager combinations let you enjoy all these. Just a matter of familiarity. VS is certainly a neat IDE and always was since I first played with it ~17-18 years ago, but hasn't been the only player in a long time now. Unless you need to use every single feature and tool from its up-to-120GB of installation size (with everything selected) --- never met anyone who does..
- pjmlp 9y agoMost Linux users are against nice UI/UX provided by GNOME, KDE, Anjuta, KDevelop, GNOME Builder, .... as seen by the complaints and forks. There is this culture of tiling window managers, vim, Emacs, everything done via CLI and UI/UX is a subject of interest only for dumb users. Which surfaces as the biggest one among its users. So anyone that cares about programming pleasant UI/UX workflows, hang with developers that share the same love for it, only has macOS and Windows dev cultures as harbor.
- plupf 9y agoMany many Linux users are all for nice UIs, and pretty animations. Which is why GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE, Cinnamon, Budgie, Pantheon exist in the first place. The sheer amount, variety and quality of themes available for a typical Linux distro puts your point to rest.
- pjmlp 9y agoWhat puts my point to rest is that the only successful Linux based consumer devices, are a web browser based OS and a Java based one, with nothing Linux specific exposed to its users or app developers.