I use Eclipse for Google Android development mostly, and Java a little bit. At the moment, it's so unstable that I have gone back to using Windows XP (I have a dual boot Ubuntu/XP on my desktop). It is actually more stable with Java than with Android so I think an added problem is the Android SDK, which isn't the most stable SDK in the world to start with anyway (and don't get me started on their emulator which can take up to two whole minutes to start up!).
I use Qt Creator for C++ development, this is pretty stable. I'm aware that the trend is towards VMs - I've been putting it off for a few months but I guess it might be time for me to experiment with them a little bit... I'm a little scared - see, I'm worried that it will mean more time troubleshooting my computer and less time actually using my computer... The problems with upgrades is that it's difficult to resist them - they are announced everywhere (Ubuntu gets quite a lot of press/blog coverage etc) and I'm only human lol, I'm tempted to get the "latest" version of Ubuntu... So it might suit me better to go with a distro that simply doesn't upgrade so often... @Andrew & @ Sean - yes, I guess I should try installing Eclipse from the tar files, it can't really be worse than it is right now anyway lol -- Next meeting: Bournemouth? TBD, Wednesday 2010-10-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
