As a long-time Windows user and developer (20+ years), I find the transition to the Linux world painful.
It seems that to do the important things one has to go to the command line. This in turn requires the maintenance of various cheat sheets. Remembering where these are located for rapid reference becomes an ever-larger burden.
I’d be interested in how to make the transition from Windows to Linux less painful. I have multiple computers, a KBM, etc.
As far as development environments go, yuck. I’ve spent quite a lot of time with Eclipse. C++ is my language of choice. I’m just too used to MSVS, I guess. So many things in Eclipse seem different to me, I just don’t feel like going down the learning curve.
This includes the GUI aspects of programming in the Linux environment.
Insight from those of you who’ve made the transition would be appreciated.
The key--again, in my experience--is desire and immersion. Force yourself to learn something new, to climb that learning curve.
While Eclipse is certainly a leading IDE, there are many more out there for the Linux OS. Explore some, see if any of those are acceptable.
I just don’t feel like going down the learning curve.
And this will keep you back from not only Linux, but many other things as well. I can't give useful advice if it won't be used.
Several years ago (pre-Win7), I tried some of the distros and flavors of Linux. None would recognize all of my peripherals. None recognized my K-World PCTV card. One didn’t even like my widescreen monitor. Some could not recognize the printer. They seemed aimed at geeks and gave only cursory attention to actual productivity.
With the various flavors, it was difficult to determine which one was the best for actual productivity. It took more time to find out the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ of each than the effort was worth.
The same complaints seem to be still true.