>How about something simple. Compare Visual Studio to Eclipse. Eclipse looks amateurish in comparison.


How about IntelliJ. It's made by the same folks who make Resharper.

A VS.NET dev told me last week the IDE (which he for some reason called a resharper IDE) is amazing.

Eclipse runs very well on Linux, fwiw.


>>Fair enough. Perhaps also would have been better to ask for an example for compelling UI from my side first to establish common ground in multi-facetted and taste-influenced environment.