I give up.  After years of fighting everyone in my department I give up.  They win.  What am I talking about?  Which operating system to write code on.  At UAF you start of using Visual Studio, much to the dismay of many students.  Creating small single file projects with MSVS is like killing flies with a bazooka; it may get the job done but there is a lot of collateral damage.  And I am tired of picking up the pieces.

All the tools available, particularly the  ones related to my thesis, either “work” on Windows, theoretically work on Windows, or openly flame Windows.

So starting this weekend I am going to install Linux (Ubuntu most likely) and refresh myself in the ways of gcc.  Sigh.

It is safe to say I am obsessed with paper more than any other programmer I know.  Which is probably a good thing as books are expensive.  The sad thing is this only amounts to about half of my Amazon wish list.  Sigh, I need more shelves.