Talking about elliotth's blog: Desktop Linux suckage: where's our Steve Jobs?
I read this article for a while at work today, and it's spot on.
I've tried to program against Linux before, and it was a nightmare. I chose to try using a C# compiler from the Mono project, and a free (because everything for Linux is free) IDE called SharpEdit (or #Edit, or something like that).
There were no fewer than 30 steps that I had to follow *before* I could even start writing code.
I had to get specific versions of about 20 different components - none of which were in the same place, and the guide document pointing to all of those components was outdated.
I gave up.
Incidentally, the same thing happened when I tried to use C# on a Mac, so I just gave up all together. I've looked at Cocoa and Objective C, but that seems like a lot of work, too, for just playing around. Anyway, read this article.
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elliotth's blog: Desktop Linux suckage: where's our Steve Jobs?