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Why CB over V2005express, etc.
JGM:
--- Quote from: thomas on October 18, 2007, 11:15:09 am ---It's bad enough having to use Windows due to lack of alternatives.
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ReactOS is an OS with great progress, I always monitor their status. If no body have heard of it here is the url http://www.reactos.org/. I would like to help them, but that people is on another level of programming :P
stahta01:
--- Quote from: JGM on October 18, 2007, 03:03:54 pm ---
ReactOS is an OS with great progress, I always monitor their status. If no body have heard of it here is the url http://www.reactos.org/. I would like to help them, but that people is on another level of programming :P
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I have been watching ReactOS and I can most of the time I can compile SVN, so I might start looking at the code and see if I can help with very minor things. Still have not gotten a good VM of ReactOS going.
Tim S
thomas:
Well, ReactOS has the same problem as Linux (MacOS, BeOS, ...). They're all well-meant and great, certainly much better than Windows, and such... but they have one problem, they just don't work as desktop systems. Mostly, that's because third parties don't properly support them (drivers), or because just the one program you want doesn't run (and then it does not matter if 213 other programs work fine).
I plug my standard nVidia graphics card into my standard Windows PC and it just works. I attach a second standard monitor and click on "expand desktop", and it just works. I want to play "Lord of the Rings Online", and it just works. I plug in my SpaceNavigator, it tells me "click OK to install driver", and it just works...
Under all those "better" operating systems, my experience is that things either don't work at all, or they take 4 hours to set up and then only work half way (like, software rendering with a Geforce 8600 plugged in).
This doesn't necessarily mean that those operating systems are bad, they aren't... but they just don't work as dektop systems if the most basic things are amiss.
cmb:
--- Quote from: Jan van den Borst on October 18, 2007, 11:33:39 am ---Also the editor is great and I find myself switching from MSVC to codeblocks just for editing my files and beautify them with Astyle.
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The AStyle equivalent in Microsoft Visual Studio is Control + K then Control + F.
cmb:
--- Quote from: thomas on October 18, 2007, 11:15:09 am ---Money. They charge me 799 dollars for a (more or less) usable version of Visual Studio, while giving it out for free in India.
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To clarify, the original poster mentioned the Express version of Visual Studio which I think is free to everybody. Versions with more (and perhaps unneeded) features require the outlay of significant amounts of currency.
I like to switch between Visual Studio and Code::Blocks compiling with GCC especially when having a problem. A cryptic error message in one may make more sense in the other.
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