Windows 11 may be what finally forces me to switch entirely to Linux, if I can find a distro that isn't run by commies. I was happy the other day when my non-work-PC came up with a warning that it was not eligible for Windows 11, but I'm assuming that it will take some manual prevention efforts to keep it off of my work PC.
I'd have switched to Linux long ago if not for Visual Studio. It's simply leaps and bounds better than every other IDE. Back in the early '00s, Microsoft basically hired all of Borland's IDE talent (Delphi and C# were both designed by the same dude) making Visual Studio the only real IDE left in the world. (Sorry, XCode users. It has some nice features, yes ... when they work ... and it doesn't crash.)
And I'm always amused when I have this discussion with web or Apple developers who respond with, "an IDE is just a text editor that launches your app, XCode/Notepad++/VIM/whatever works fine."
I've honestly most ever only built Windows software from Makefiles and the like. So basically ports of Linux stuff. And then I just edit with vi or whatever.
Some video game mods have come as VS projects, and I open them on Windows, but I ended up editing the xml manually anyways to make the build-test-debug cycle work.
Visual Studio Code is not Visual Studio. It's not bad;
I disagree but that's because I'm an opinionated motherfucker who's tired of having idiot sysadmins tell me that Powershell ISE is deprecated as if that means it isn't still the superior environment in which to write my code when VSCode keeps sperging out on me every time I try to use it whereas ISE has always just fucking worked without requiring any coaxing or configuration.
And yes I am stubborn and mad enough about this that I have managed to make Powershell 7 work with ISE because goddammit it's my preferred environment but that doesn't even matter because Powershell 5 does everything I need.
Visual Studio is nice though. I need to get back to brushing up on my C# one of these days so I can make the jump to more dev focused work.
Can be installed in about 30 seconds with something like flatpak too. Linux has the wrong reputation for easy install of software. I find it much better myself for the majority of things. I can update 95% of what's installed on Linux the same way. It's not a bunch of bullshit like Windows where I have the "java updater" and the "adobe updater" and all trying to constantly run. Two commands to run my dnf and flatpak upgrades every so often, whenever I feel like it, without being compulsory, and I'm done.
I still like actual Visual Studio at times, but low level programming and web projects work great in VS Code.
Windows 11 may be what finally forces me to switch entirely to Linux, if I can find a distro that isn't run by commies. I was happy the other day when my non-work-PC came up with a warning that it was not eligible for Windows 11, but I'm assuming that it will take some manual prevention efforts to keep it off of my work PC.
I'd have switched to Linux long ago if not for Visual Studio. It's simply leaps and bounds better than every other IDE. Back in the early '00s, Microsoft basically hired all of Borland's IDE talent (Delphi and C# were both designed by the same dude) making Visual Studio the only real IDE left in the world. (Sorry, XCode users. It has some nice features, yes ... when they work ... and it doesn't crash.)
And I'm always amused when I have this discussion with web or Apple developers who respond with, "an IDE is just a text editor that launches your app, XCode/Notepad++/VIM/whatever works fine."
Visual Studio Code has been officially available on Linux for years.
Visual Studio Code is not Visual Studio. It's not bad; I use it almost daily for non-C++ projects, but it's not Visual Studio.
Yep. Visual Studio has way more functionality than VSC can provide. Nearest Visual Studio replacement would be jetbrains Rider
I've honestly most ever only built Windows software from Makefiles and the like. So basically ports of Linux stuff. And then I just edit with vi or whatever.
Some video game mods have come as VS projects, and I open them on Windows, but I ended up editing the xml manually anyways to make the build-test-debug cycle work.
I disagree but that's because I'm an opinionated motherfucker who's tired of having idiot sysadmins tell me that Powershell ISE is deprecated as if that means it isn't still the superior environment in which to write my code when VSCode keeps sperging out on me every time I try to use it whereas ISE has always just fucking worked without requiring any coaxing or configuration.
And yes I am stubborn and mad enough about this that I have managed to make Powershell 7 work with ISE because goddammit it's my preferred environment but that doesn't even matter because Powershell 5 does everything I need.
Visual Studio is nice though. I need to get back to brushing up on my C# one of these days so I can make the jump to more dev focused work.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux
Can be installed in about 30 seconds with something like flatpak too. Linux has the wrong reputation for easy install of software. I find it much better myself for the majority of things. I can update 95% of what's installed on Linux the same way. It's not a bunch of bullshit like Windows where I have the "java updater" and the "adobe updater" and all trying to constantly run. Two commands to run my dnf and flatpak upgrades every so often, whenever I feel like it, without being compulsory, and I'm done.
I still like actual Visual Studio at times, but low level programming and web projects work great in VS Code.
I loved Delphi back in the day.
Never been a fan of Xcode.
Vim on the other hand...