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Visual Studio/IDE Questions

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JC0133

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Looking for some IDE to write my programs in for my classes next semester.

Can I get Visual Studio for free? Or Visual C++ or Visual C#? If so how?

Also Netbeans and Eclipse are both free IDEs right? How do I get them?

I am thinking of running VMware with Linux on my windows machine. How do I go about getting VMware?

What is the difference between Ubuntu and Fedora? I want to use one of them, which is more popular or better for programming? Does either one of them have Nedit?
 
that's a lot of questions...
1. Visual Studio Community Edition is free. It will come with the compiler
2. Netbeans and Eclipse are free too, and open source projects on top of that. But they don't come with the compiler. Both of them support gcc compilers for Windows, MinGW and Cygwin ports. So then you'd need to install and configure MinGW first, and then Eclipse/Netbeans. Eclipse will work with Visual Studio compiler.
3. VMware workstation Player is free version of VMware, but Virtual Box is oftne used as another completely free alternative.
4. Fedora and Ubuntu come as evolution of two different old Linux distros: Red Hat Linux and Debian. There are many differences between them, I'd subjectively say main one is package management- RPM and DEB. For each you can install native gcc compiler, and Nebeans/Eclipse are supported. There's really no difference in programming support; it comes down to installing the proper packages
 
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