[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop

Tue Mar 12 14:17:25 UTC 2013

Hi,

I use Monodevelop for .Net Console/GTK/Asp.Net and C/C++ on Linux for years. Currently I'm using Mono 3.06 and Monodevelop 4.0 for developing a web application with NancyFx and all still working as always, including debugging. I'm using appharbor for integration testing, so I code on linux, test local with xsp (for debugging) and nginx, push to git, and appharbor automatically build my code and run the app on a windows server on top of nginx. ;)

Linux can be cumbersome sometimes, but I'm a very happy openSUSE + KDE user. My machine (a little bit old now) is a ASUS (ROG) laptop. It came with Vista, that I didn't login even once. I installed openSUSE 4 years ago, which was in version 10.x I think, and did all distro upgrades without major problems. Even the OLED panel has kernel support.

Modern linux distributions minimized a lot the problems with sound and video. Last week I installed STEAM on my system, and was not a surprise playing Half-Life on my linux box, with proprietary nvidia drivers.

The openSUSE distribution always had updated Mono packages (official or from community). See http://software.opensuse.org/package/monodevelop.

Coding on linux is much more fun. I state this affirmation as a former .Net/Windows developer.

I have no experience with Mac, and really have no desire too. In my opinion Mac are overpriced and I'm a little claustrophobic to wear a strait jacket. Freedom is always good.

Cheers,

Tony

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> De: Miljenko Cvjetko <mcvjetko at holisticware.net>
>Para: monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com 
>Enviadas: Terça-feira, 12 de Março de 2013 6:20
>Assunto: Re: [MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop
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>Hi
>
>Just to back Mike up - few links with status and predictions for
      desktop OS marketshare
>
>Miguel's article: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
>another one http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/osx-killed-linux/
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>I'd like to see Linux version of MD/XS to have bigger priority,
      but can understand reasons for opposite.
>I mean in countries like ours, where avg payment is $700 (in IT
      maybe 2-3x) getting real Mac means that
>YOUr kinds have no problem with obesity 8-P.
>
>cheers
>
>Mel
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>On 2013.03.11 21:58, Mike Krüger wrote:
>
>Hi 
>>
>>
>>Depends -  in many ways Linux is our best and some ways it's our worst platform.
>>Let's begin what's not so good:
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>>- Installation is difficult (you need to set up a built environment) - forget the versions from the official sources, they're outdated
>>- The Linux eco system is bigger (at least compared to os x) and some bugs may occur on untested environments/library combinations. 
>>- We're focusing ATM more on OS X and Windows platforms - therefore we're beginning to erode on Linux - slowly. For example we don't support gtk3 yet or Qt development. (But frankly most of this stuff should be created by the .NET community on Linux, which is ... too small unfortunately - I think I know all of them from IRC :))
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>>Now to the things that are really good/better on Linux:
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>>+ We're a gtk program and despite our and Lanedo's efforts to improve gtk on other platforms it runs best on Linux. The Linux UI is the fastest and most stable out of all platforms.
>>+ You've less keyboard input problems. The Linux  version is the only one where you can type with any layout and language inside MonoDevelop. (Depending on what you use it's a big factor)
>>+ Because you need to built the mono stack from source you've the latest versions available and if you report bugs you're getting fixes much more earlier than you would by using one of our installers (therefore the installation pain is also a gain)
>>+ MonoDevelop supports theming on Linux - I suspect that it'll break with some dark themes - but generally you're more flexible on that than on the other platforms
>>+ Highest coolness factor 'My IDE isn't even in the repositories' - I bet you're the only one in your street who can say that :). 
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>>... in fact it's more or less equal on all platforms.
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>>Regards
>>Mike
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>>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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