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Personally, I don't think that any OS is even close to being what Windows is. Maybe Macs are the closest and I believe they got a few things down better than Wi

by Khao 16y ago

Personally, I don't think that any OS is even close to being what Windows is. Maybe Macs are the closest and I believe they got a few things down better than Windows, but this alternative isn't free either. As for Linux I have tried different linux OSes and I see only use for them in server environments. None of them have made me want to lose Windows completely because they weren't as plug and play as Windows is. Another killer point for Microsoft is the whole Visual Studio environment and the .NET language. I haven't found a single IDE that is as powerful as Visual Studio and the language (C# notably, but also any other .net language) is also by far my favorite language. Compared to Java, I know that the language isn't that much different, but because Visual Studio makes it so easy, so plug and play, it gives you the freedom to concentrate only on the code and nothing else. I've had bad experiences where IDEs made from Java for writing Java software are really slow and buggy, and that's not what I've seen so far from software written in .Net either as free or paid softwares.

HelpfulHoratio 16y ago
This post is unintentionally hilarious.
squidsoup 16y ago
I'm a .Net developer that has recently started working in the Java/GWT/Google Apps ecosystem, and honestly have found Eclipse Helios to be a perfectly good IDE. I can't honestly think of anything that it is missing - it has a unit test runner, "intellisense", easy dependency management etc. Eclipse also has some neat plugins like eclimd that let you run genuine vim inside the IDE.
xiongchiamiov 16y ago
I'm told that you can do .NET development using Mono quite satisfactorily. No personal experience. There's a lot of crappy Java programs. This is likely the result of there being a lot of crappy Java programmers. Personally, programming is why I'm not on Windows; sure, you've got the .NET stack, but we've got everything else. Most languages, editors, debuggers, etc. that I find are either *nix-only, or have Windows support bolted on. I feel like a religious war is forthcoming.

by Khao 16y ago

HelpfulHoratio 16y ago

This post is unintentionally hilarious.

squidsoup 16y ago

I'm a .Net developer that has recently started working in the Java/GWT/Google Apps ecosystem, and honestly have found Eclipse Helios to be a perfectly good IDE. I can't honestly think of anything that it is missing - it has a unit test runner, "intellisense", easy dependency management etc. Eclipse also has some neat plugins like eclimd that let you run genuine vim inside the IDE.

xiongchiamiov 16y ago

I'm told that you can do .NET development using Mono quite satisfactorily. No personal experience. There's a lot of crappy Java programs. This is likely the result of there being a lot of crappy Java programmers. Personally, programming is why I'm not on Windows; sure, you've got the .NET stack, but we've got everything else. Most languages, editors, debuggers, etc. that I find are either *nix-only, or have Windows support bolted on. I feel like a religious war is forthcoming.