[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:19:42 +0200
Paulo Pinto <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:

> Am 14.09.2013 08:14, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> >
> > Heh, I'm sort of the opposite. I've been using Windows from 3.11
> > through 7, and from Vista onward I've started to really hate Windows
> > more and more (If I wanted to be running a Mac, I'd have gotten a
> > Mac, not two versions of "New Windows: Apple-Envy Edition" followed
> > by "Microsoft UI-Of-The-Month Club").
> >
> > Meanwhile, I've been using Linux more and more for testing and
> > servers, and I'm looking at switching my main OS over to...probably
> > Debian 7, with wine and VirtualBox for the occasional things that
> > don't come in Linux flavor. I just wish I could get a Linux file
> > manager I liked.
> >
> 
> The main problem with Linux distributions, is that even in 2013, it 
> won't work properly in laptops.
> 
> Wireless chipsets, battery use and graphic cards (specially hybrid
> like optimus) are still a problem.
> 

Really? That's all rather discouraging. As of last year, my primary
system is now a laptop, and my concern about laptop-related issues was
the main reason I ended up sticking with the factory-installed Win7
instead of upgrading back to XP.

> laptops sold with Linux support.

Those exist?

I've long heard stories about such things, but they seem to be like
unicorns or mermaids or bigfoot...fantasy creatures you only ever hear
tales "through the grapevine" about. Not so much real evidence or
first-hand accounts.

> As an example, last April, an Ubuntu update borked my wireless
> driver, because of religious FOSS. Ubuntu developers changed the
> binary broadcom driver, working flawlessly, for the open source one,
> which was still half done.
> 
> There is a discussion about it on their forums, if you want a link
> for it.
> 

Well, I don't use Ubuntu anymore for my Linux boxes. Migrated upstream
to Debian. Any idea if one of the less religious distros (like Mint)
would be decent for a laptop, or are non-OSS drivers merely one issue?