

I have to do the linux stuff due to what I am working on. Everything I need in one place, all nice and consistent to use. I can get easily 400-500% more productive. Try a fully integrated environment like Visual Studio say with C++ as a fair comparison. Its no wonder that Linux admirer’s like to remember 7000 commands and use things like vim and the reason is they never have really used something thats up to todays mark.
#Geany portable linux install#
In WIndows it’d taken about 2 hours that being the time to install and configure Visual Studio. What FUN! It took me only 9 hours from start to finish to get the whole rig development ready.
#Geany portable linux software#
I just set up a dell server for some software I am coding up in PHP (unfortunately) mainly so I can do load tests under CentOS.

I am a software engineer, C++,C#, VB, PHP etc along w/ MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle etc. Not have to go through craploads of crap to do so. Using a computer means the ability to use it. But, when comparing how many average folks use a computer both WIndows and Mac’s win hands down. Linux sits on many many web servers, servers and yes… even home users. Linux is alive in various flavors much in the same way FreeBSD has lived. While tinkerers and those with guru meditation syndrome might like vim, vi, emacs, nano whatall… reality is a GUI based editor is so so so much more intuitive AND more so productive. Gedit is the default text editor for the GNOME desktop environment. Vim 101 Hacks eBook contains 101 practical examples on various advanced Vim features that will make you fast and productive in the Vim editor.

As part of the contest that was conducted a while back, I got around 200 responses from the geeky readers who choose their favorite Linux text editor.īased on this data, the top spot in the best Linux text editor goes to…
