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What do you see as poor Linux support?
by selfhoster11 5y ago
What do you see as poor Linux support?
- vially 5y agoNot op, but for me the lack of native Wayland support is a deal breaker. And running it through XWayland has various issues (focus is broken, issues with HighDPI screens, etc). If Fleet supports Wayland natively I might give it a try, otherwise it's dead on arrival for me.
- kaba0 5y agoAs far as I know jetbrains did start to write a wayland backend for sway. But it is most probably a project with very low priority.
- politelemon 5y agoMy mistake on the wording, I should have said "mediocre", perhaps. I can't edit the comment now, oops sorry. I am referring to lack of an installer, and also the default shortcuts which clash with the distro, and in general I've seen features come to Linux a lot later. So a better way to put it is that Linux feels like an afterthought to Jetbrains. I do follow and also raise issues you on YouTrack but find they often languish. Their IDEs are still overall pretty good, but I gravitate towards VS Code now.
- ta988 5y agoThe installer is called jetbrains Toolbox. Never had any issues on systems with i3, gnome, sway...
- cluoma 5y agoInstalling single IDEs is clunky. Basically it's up to you to put it where you want and then create any shortcuts you may need. Flatpaks make this easier but I would rather not use them. Besides this, I never really felt that Linux was an afterthought though. At least from my experience using CLion.
- ta988 5y agoNo Jetbrains toolbox handles all of that for you by default. And let you override defaults if needed.