[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

[IBBoard]

It depends what you're trying to do.

Originally, MonoDevelop was written for Linux, because the guys worked
for Ximian and then Novell and were bringing .Net to Linux. Then
everyone got shiny new Macs and lots of the developers jumped over to OS
X, leading to an improved MD on Mac being released. Windows also works,
but there it is competing against SharpDevelop and (of course) Visual
Studio.

If you want to do Android or iOS development then you need Windows (with
a Mac for the iOS build) or Mac (I believe it does Android as well).
Unfortunately, Linux has now become the poor sibling and doesn't get all
the shiny toys.

If you want to do more general Mono development (libraries, command-line
apps or ASP.Net to run under Mono on a Linux server) then you're
probably best using Linux. If you want WinForms and Windows users then
you're probably better with Windows (and, to be honest, you might even
be better using SharpDevelop or Visual Studio Express because of the
WinForms designer, although the latest MonoDevelop 4/Xamarin Studio
might have changed the feature balance a little).

Personally, I develop my library code, library tests and GTK# interface
on Linux and my WinForms interface in Windows using VS.Net Express.



On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 17:08 -0300, Jonathan Lima wrote:
> Yes, it's pretty stable in all supported platforms. Why Linux would be
> the wrong direction if one of the goals of MD is a cross-platform IDE
> for .Net?
> 
> 2013/3/11 Damian Kohlfeld <damian at kohlfeld.com>
>         What is the preferred OS to use?  Perhaps I’m going in the
>         wrong direction trying to run this on Linux.  Is monodevelop
>         on windows stable?
>         
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>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         Damian
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