Said Goodbye to Windows This Week

[Snog]

After being a hard core Windows person for many, many years I said goodbye to Windows and have changed all of my operating systems to Mint.

So far I haven't found anything that I can't do in Mint that I could do in Windows. As a matter of fact, in many cases Mint does things better.

And now I've also installed Eclipse for my add-on development and that has been one great upgrade for me. I'd recommend Eclipse to anyone doing add-on development.

 

[m1ne]

Games.

 

[Snog]

Don't play games on my computer.

 

[Chris D]

Eclipse?

Have you ever tried PhpStorm?

Just wondering People like what they like, but having used most IDEs I can't imagine myself going back to something Eclipse based.

 

[Snog]

Eclipse?

Have you ever tried PhpStorm?

Just wondering People like what they like, but having used most IDEs I can't imagine myself going back to something Eclipse based.

I'll look into it. But there's one advantage to Eclipse... it's free.

 

[Chris D]

That is true

They occasionally do some decent discounts though.

What were you using before Eclipse?

 

[Snog]

That is true

They occasionally do some decent discounts though.

What were you using before Eclipse?

Notepad and Wordpad

 

[Chris D]

Whoa...

 

[The Dark Wizard]

Notepad and Wordpad

Whoa...

Not even Notepad++?

 

[Snog]

Whoa...

Yep..Whoa.

Any time I would forget the syntax for a particular function I'd have to go look at it. Not any more.

Not even Notepad++?

Nope.

 

[Paul B]

Seriously, I can't even imagine trying to develop using Notepad.

Crazy!

 

[Snog]

Seriously, I can't even imagine trying to develop using Notepad.

It's no joke. I have never used any sort of development tool until now. All notepad and wordpad.

I'm not the only old school developer. I know people using gedit for large scale commercial use C programs.

 

[Sheratan]

Real man use notepad and vim

 

[Zynektic]

Haha, I do all mine in Notepad++

 

[keith.arvixe]

Welcome to the dark side of amazing OS's haha XD

 

[timothy259856]

How about Sublime 2?

 

[imthebest]

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Seriously, I can't even imagine trying to develop using Notepad.

Crazy!

IIRC Kier said in a post here that before joining to Jelsoft (or before the release of vB 3) Mike was using Notepad to code.

 

[Paul B]

That was more than 15 years ago.

 

[rdn]

Eclipse

But it's java based, and I hate to install java/jre.

I also tried Linux Mint, Linux Lite.
But Ubuntu 15.04 works really great for me.

 

[Chris D]

But it's java based, and I hate to install java/jre.

They all are, really.

PhpStorm is also Java based but I've never had performance issues with it like I had with Eclipse. Anything I used which was Eclipse based - including Zend Studio - I eventually ended up despising.

On Windows, PhpEd is an excellent option as it is a native Windows app. But, of course, PhpStorm is cross platform so that was ultimately what led me to leave PhpEd when I started using a MacBook in addition to Windows on my desktop.