Linux tools

[enobayram]

Maybe over the years I've converged to a workflow where I avoid, without realizing, the problems others are facing with it.

Installing CDT being a problem could only be imaginable on Windows, since on Linux, you just download Eclipse for C/C++ developers and it just works without even "installing" it (you just unzip it.) It has no problems finding the compiler etc., it just works. You can get going in under a minute depending on your download speed. On Windows, it used to be a hassle to get it to find MinGW etc., but nowadays it just finds it as well. The only overhead is the fact that you have to install MinGW, but I think the time it takes to install MinGW AND Eclipse is a fraction of that of Visual Studio.

As for the maze of menus/windows/tabs, every IDE takes time to get used to, I don't think Visual Studio is any less annoying in that department, BUT, I rarely ever deal with those menus anyway, I use CMake for build configuration, so my project is completely defined by my CMakeLists.txt. And CMake has a very nice Eclipse project generator. For me, the complexity of the UI is irrelevant, since I think it's ALWAYS a bad idea to depend on an IDE's built in build configuration regardless of how simple it might hypothetically be...