So first off, let me say, I’m pretty neutral about the different major Operating Systems. I like Windows for surfing, programming, and basic stuff.
I like Macs for their power with photo and video editing and unique and creative features.
I like linux for programming, and using as a server. It’s quite good at those things.
So now we can see some of the nice things about each. Now for most of my computers I’m running windows. (except 2 that are running ubuntu server) The reason for this is because I’ve been doing so much programming in the last few weeks. I’m putting out about 300-400 lines of code a day. Thats a lot. Now, at this point you probably know that I’m going to talk about the .NET framework and the Visual Studios IDE’s. I really REALLY hate the .NET framework because it is Microsoft only, just like everything else Microsoft makes. Though with programs like Mono, which I talked about two or three posts ago, I don’t really have to worry about the portability of the .NET framework. So that is one thing that makes me happy about Microsoft; It is still portable despite the fact that they don’t want to be.
Despite those things, I still like the simplicity of most of Microsoft’s programs. Microsoft stuff like Office and Visual Studios are quite nice. They hog memory, but other than that they are very nice. I love Visual studios. It makes programming in any .NET language so much easier and the form designer is probably the best thing about it. Choose the things you want, and drag and drop them. The IDE is so great also for people like me who just wan to experiment. The intellisense in Visual Studios is very nice, and makes it easy to just explore the language itself so you don’t have to go looking through man-pages to find out how to use a function, and that is so convenient. Hooray, Microsoft made something that I really like for once :]
I still hate Microsoft’s web site. It’s impossible to navigate…
