[computer-go] My experience with Linux

[Mark Boon]

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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