Linux zealots are funny

Roger Wright

Colin Davies wrote: I don't wanna agree with Linux heads. Uncomfortable as it is, sometimes the opposition is right. I hate when that happens... It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
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peterchen

Well, if Mr. "I am da l33t" can't afford a hardware where the baby runs smoothly on... :cool: However, as him, the overwrite cursor was the first "yay!" thing I noticed about VS.NET

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Brad Jennings

Although I don't completely disagree with the guy, VS.NET is a damned sight better than the Sun One Java IDE. VS.NET has 2 improvements over VS 6.0 for C++ developers: ... 2) There's a column on the left side of the text editor for easy breakpoint insertion/removals Last I checked VS 6.0 has this column too, so I guess there's only one improvement according to this guy:) Your right, Linux zealots are entertaining:-D Brad Jennings "if the golden arches shut shop, where else are the VB people going to get work." - Colin Davies

Michael P Butler

I've got to agree with him about a lot of the flaws, some of them are annoying. The losing of settings being the biggest pain in the ass (but VC6 has the same issue). A lot of the flaws he mentions are also a factor in VC6 too (The multiple project source-safe stuff). But most developers learn to work around the issue. VS.NET isn't the best, but it beats everything else the competition has. Michael Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman. All the world's waiting for you, and the power you possess. In your satin tights, Fighting for your rights And the old Red, White and Blue.

Alex E

Michael P Butler wrote: VS.NET isn't the best, but it beats everything else the competition has. Isn’t this sentence oxymoron?

John Carson

Alex E. wrote: Michael P Butler wrote: VS.NET isn't the best, but it beats everything else the competition has. Isn’t this sentence oxymoron? Good question, but the answer is "not necessarily". It depends on what comparison is being made in referring to "the best". A reasonable interpretation might be: "VS.NET isn't the best that one could reasonably hope for, but it beats everything else the competition has." John Carson

Bruce Duncan

How do you get Linux zealot out of that? I see a frustrated Windows developer with a slow pc that possibly needs to be rebuilt.

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Jim A Johnson

Usually they are funny, but in this case the guy is dead-nuts 100% accurate. Hell, he has only scratched the surface of the problems with VS.NET.

Gary R Wheeler

Typical bonehead, whiny, it-doesn't-write-my-code-for-me twit.

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Tim Smith

Hmm, VS.NET has tons of problems. It took me a while to get use to the UI, but in many cases, the UI is just BROKEN. I have to agree with much of what they guy was saying. Tim Smith I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

Andreas Saurwein

peterchen wrote: However, as him, the overwrite cursor was the first "yay!" thing I noticed about VS.NET :omg: Dont tell me that you are one of those who switch on overwrite and then watch how the carefully crafted code which made up the rest of the line get eaten up. :wtf: The only situation where overwrite is actually useful in VC is replacing singe chars in copy-pasted lines. :(

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

Where's the Linux reference? :confused: I just see a guy being pissed at VS.NET... -- "And God said, Let us make man in our image"

peterchen

No "Indicate input state clearly" is a very fundamental MS UI design requirement. And I'm just irked that it took them so long ;) Besides, yes, replacing individual chars, there are some cases of "keyboard dancing" (like fast repeated "cursor down, ctrl-left, ctrl-shift-left, shift-ins"), where I accidentally hit INS without shift... It wouldn't irk me: I notice mis-hits immediately - but have to look what I did. And looking for the elven-cloaked OVR switching between tiny-dark-gray and tiny-black isn't fun - it's far away from the place the input happens (the caret), it's not very obvious (if it would be a simple black block, my eye would already be trained to put it through to the state memory without asking the CPU for cycles) So, no, I see "lines eaten up" only when I work on the keyboard with a sticky backspace. That's funny!!!!

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