[deltasquared]

Some aspects of a platform are not a challenge, just painful.

For instance say I am looking for a bit of text.

In *nix I have vi in which I can type "esc/foo." Now, before I can blink the I am at the first match. Hitting "/" goes to the next one just as fast. If I don't know what file to look at, grep will tell me quickly.

Visual Studio has a search function, but it's not regular expressions by default, will not work on all of the design surfaces, and requires going through several dialogue windows. Typically I have to put my hand on the mouse to get any results.

For some tasks platforms and tools can make a big speed difference.

However it is true people are complex and hard to predict.

Perhaps some c/c++/QT programmers when given a, a shiny new windows based development environment, may enjoy the extra time they spend searching through source code. Who knows?

[rwallace]

Vim works fine on Windows.