Best OS for Qt development

[sierdzio]

as Andre said + if you consider using Qt5, keep in mind that installation on Windows has just got a bit harder. I am probably heavily biased here, what with me working on Linux 90+% of the time. Pick any system you like and feel comfortable in, although since you are at school anyway, you can also use the time to learn a new OS :D

[Crosswavc]

[quote author="Sam" date="1348664020"]You can actually add a "Poll" to the question and can get various suggestions. I currently work on windows .[/quote]

I actually didn't know that.. I guess I am a bit new here...

[quote author="Andre" date="1348664266"]It doesn't really matter, I think, though I do read more about platform related glitches on Mac than on the other platforms. So, use whatever platform you're most comfortable on. [/quote]

Hm.. Well, I think I'll be trying a few OS'es to try, and find the one I am comfortable with. MacOSX will probably not be it...

[Sam]

[quote author="Crosswavc" date="1348664545"]
[quote author="Sam" date="1348664020"]You can actually add a "Poll" to the question and can get various suggestions. I currently work on windows .[/quote]

I actually didn't know that.. I guess I am a bit new here...
[/quote]

Just for the knowledge : If you edit you first post then at the bottom of the page on the left side you can see "Add a poll to this topic" , It actually looks like "this":http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/3036/P30/ .

[tobias.hunger]

broadpeak: Claiming that Qt is developed on Ubuntu does go way too far! We have a wide zoo of OSes and Linux distributions in use here at the Digia office in Berlin (Oslo is pretty similar from what I have seen). Ubuntu is definitely a popular part of the mix, but so is Windows, Mac, ArchLinux, Fedora, Debian and OpenSuse.

[Crosswavc]

[quote author="Sam" date="1348667057"]
[quote author="Crosswavc" date="1348664545"]
[quote author="Sam" date="1348664020"]You can actually add a "Poll" to the question and can get various suggestions. I currently work on windows .[/quote]

I actually didn't know that.. I guess I am a bit new here...
[/quote]

Just for the knowledge : If you edit you first post then at the bottom of the page on the left side you can see "Add a poll to this topic" , It actually looks like "this":http://qt-project.org/forums/viewthread/3036/P30/ .[/quote]

Thanks - good to know. Sadly it's under 25%...

[pwnstar23]

Linux because installing the latest QT Creator from the github repo is VERY EASY compared to windows.

[Crosswavc]

I actually installed it just fine in Windows;
But, I'll be running in Debian soon or my OpenSUSE area soon.

[Brochadinho]

Hello every one!

I'm starting a small project at home, and i will install an os from develop porposes. But i'm not sure what to pick. At work i use ubuntu, but im thinking in intall manjaro. Any advices and sugestions will be welcome.

thanks

[arsinte_andrei]

Ubuntu have a great support and easy of use. personally I'm using Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE ) and Qt5. it is great and fantastic - working and compiling or debugging is a pleasure...

[T3STY]

If your OS choice is driven by nothing particular (like multiple OS target, specific libraries and documentation availability, OS technical support and so on...), then the right answer (to me) is:

• target OS whenever possible.
  It's obvious you can't develop on Android for Android, same for Win CE... you just don't have the right tools and requirements for doing that. But if you are addressing a specific OS that you can develop on, maybe by taking advantage of some OS specific features, it really doesn't make sense to develop on a different OS. In a non cross-platform application development I can't imagine someone developing on Linux for Windows, neither someone developing on Windows for Mac OS X; you're simply going to harden your development and waste time with virtual machines, system restarts in the target OS for testing and such things... And how about you just want to test some trial-and-fail code snippet you just thought of?

• your favorite OS whenever target OS is not possible or you're developing pure Qt code (more generally, when dealing with cross-platform code and toolkits like Qt). Actually, that should be the choice every time you're not addressing a specific target OS.
  There's nothing worse than developing on a different OS that you have no idea how to use and/or address system issues on. For example, I could get used to most Linux distros, but I feel very comfortable on Windows because I use it since a long time ago and I know how to solve most of my issues. Instead, I wouldn't be able to solve very well a kernel update issue on Linux (although I've been using Ubuntu and Fedora for quite some time) which leaves the user, most of the times, unable to access the OS or only able to access a terminal session. It's not that using a different system will give you such huge issues, it might even work flawlessly for your lifetime; but even small things make the difference, and if you're used to an OS that you like and know very well, you have no reason to switch to another.

[Brochadinho]

thanks for the feedback.

I think that i will go for ubuntu. But i have a question, should i install qt from qt project, or from the ubuntu store?

[arsinte_andrei]

the best way is from online installer from Qt website - you will get the last version. on Ubuntu is Qt 4