I run Windows XP both at home and work. For a short period, I worked on a Linux (Debian) box at work, because the machine I got happened to had Debian installed and my boss, a Linux fan, insisted that I should try it. At the time FlashDevelop was my main editor, so I had to run some Sun VM that booted a virtual windows. I also use the Flash IDE on a daily basis. Mostly for minor editing, but I need to run Flash almost every day. It was naturally slow and some shortcuts wouldn't work, which was a pain. I'd spend most of the time using Windows on the VM, so it made no sense and I soon gave up and installed Windows XP.
I'm one of the retardeds using Flex Builder for AS coding ;). It has its pitfalls and I do miss some FD features, which I used almost exclusively for a long year. But now I can't live without a debugger that actually works, something I missed for years; and a passable profiler, which is not so great for measuring performance, IMO, but is invaluable when you're looking / testing for memory leaks. Once you learn to use it, the "profilers" that basically output System.totalMemory look like a bad joke. I hope some day they finally get around to add a GUI debugger to FD; having a nice profiler wouldn't hurt, either. But for now, I'd choose FB any day. Cheers Juan Pablo Califano 2009/8/11 Steven Sacks <flash...@stevensacks.net> > My home computer is a Windows XP box. > > My last full-time job was a Mac-only shop. So, I used Mac every day, 5 > days a week, for 10 months. > > Within a few weeks, I realized I couldn't live without FlashDevelop. I > installed Parallels 3 with Windows XP and figured out how to use > FlashDevelop in my workflow there. > > I *love* Expose and Spaces. However, they are easier to live without than > FlashDevelop. FDT and FlexBuilder both suck ass as Actionscript editors > compared to FlashDevelop. > > I cannot live without FlashDevelop. Period. Anyone who has spent any > serious time with it knows that it isn't an option. The day they get it > working on the Mac is the day Flex Builder (ahem, Flash Builder) sales see a > significant drop. The only reason so many people buy Flex Builder for Mac > is because FlashDevelop is currently PC-only. > > Actionscript coding in Eclipse is retarded. It's slow, clunky and > basically, sucks. > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
