BruceKHaddon commented on issue #5634: URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/issues/5634#issuecomment-1462480798
Dear Laszio, Not a solution. I teach, and 99% of my students use a Windows-based laptop. I sometimes get a student using a Mac (with MacOS) and only one time in a decade have I had a student using Linux on a desktop machine. This is because students are both beginners, and quite usually of very modest means. Students also take other courses, where the tools and programs they need are Windows-based so there is no way for me to ask students to acquire another machine, and learn to use some Unix-derived system (that takes more understanding than they have when starting in the computing world). So, by saying, “not using Windows,” is virtually equivalent to saying, “don’t use NetBeans.” Do not get me wrong. I have used many IDE’s, and in fact at one time was an evangelist for NetBeans when employed by Sun Microsystems. It is probably the easiest to learn of all the “industrial grade” IDEs. (But even working for Sun, the “enemy” of Microsoft, demonstrations of NetBeans were most often made on Windows machines, at the request of potential customers—who may have been only later converted to Solaris.) So, the copy-and-paste problems cannot be regarded as a non-issue by dismissing the world’s use of Windows! I regard such a suggestion as being unresponsive. You may have intended the response to be humor, but it is a serious problem for serious users (and probably future proponents of the use) of NetBeans. Regards, Bruce K. Haddon p.s. Why is Windows the problem? I have many other applications that work quite well using copy-and-paste on Windows, and I also have Java applications of my own that use the JDK copy-and-paste software, and they also work exactly as expected. Is NetBeans trying to do something clever (like caching) with copy-and-paste? It really is a mystery (and it is a more recent phenomenon). ________________________________ Dr. Bruce K. Haddon 1506 Chambers Drive<https://www.google.com/maps/search/1506+Chambers+Drive?entry=gmail&source=g> +1 303/499 6240 Boulder, CO 80305-7002 ***@***.******@***.***> "Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science."—Henri Poincare From: Laszlo Kishalmi ***@***.***> Sent: Wednesday, 8 March, 2023 22:41 To: apache/netbeans ***@***.***> Cc: Bruce Haddon ***@***.***>; Author ***@***.***> Subject: Re: [apache/netbeans] NetBeans IDE processes do not terminate, and cannot be cancelled. (Issue #5634) Sad but true, the best workaround for the Copy+Paste issue is not using Windows. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<https://github.com/apache/netbeans/issues/5634#issuecomment-1461320476>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AYPSWFNEC4NTH556XLDNUBLW3FUOJANCNFSM6AAAAAAVUFXLDE>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.******@***.***>> -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
