On 9-apr-08, at 13:11, David Fotland wrote:
Does Linux have a decent development environment yet?
It probably depends on the language. Java has several excellent development environments that are superior to Visual Studio IMO. And they're portable. I believe Eclipse can be made to work with gcc but I've never tried. Since that would pretty much prohibit making a Windows version I see no value as you pointed out. This is one of the reasons I switched to Java more than 10 years ago and haven't regretted it a single day.
OK, I started this OS war tongue-in-cheek and am surprised by the response. I don't expect anyone to change their idea of their favourite OS any more than changing their choice of programming language. Every OS comes with their problems and frustrations and it's true that once you're used to one of them it seems to work pretty well. It also goes in cycles. Windows XP is actually pretty decent and so was NT at its time. The Mac OS was awful until they finally got OS X together. At the moment I think it's hard to argue against the Mac OS being the best overall OS available and Macs are now also pretty competitive in price compared to PCs. Installing either OS X or Windows XP on a Mac is totally painless, maybe because Apple suplies all the drivers.
As far as I'm concerned we can rest this subject here :-) Mark
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