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PC
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Game Development
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What are the best 2D game engines?

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PixelElectronXPixelElectronX
PixelElectronX (230 karma) recommends
Unity
Best editor for 2d and 3d but need account and all guys say godot or love or cocos or libGDX unity is will make you rich and must need scripting for that you can learn scripting and can make real games (sorry i said code editor cause im searching for code editors i know i made a mistake) and can make real gr...
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 Can make any graphics
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 Allows a choice of scripting languages to use
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 Cross-platform
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 Flexibility is provided by a strong component programming model
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 Offers a choice of scripting languages
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 Can create custom forms and tools
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 OUYA support
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 Powerful standard shaders
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 Very optimized
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 Has a great animation system
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 Over 20 platforms
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 Has awesome plugins
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 Easy learning curve
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 Audio pipeline
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 Lots of resources to learn from
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 Lots of assets can be found in the Asset Store
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 Can be used for free
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 Free for mobile development
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 Allows for rapid prototyping
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 Very popular
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 Powerful asset management
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 Easy to learn
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 Supports 2D and 3D
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 Art Asset pipeline supports a lot of tools
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 Versatile
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 Royalty-free, one-time licensing fee
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 Code Editing works with external tools
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 Allows for rapid prototyping
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 Great community
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 Provides access to a huge list of assets through Asset Store
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 Great editor
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 Works with 3rd party IDEs
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 Need Account
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 Must need along very time to complete the game
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 Boo and UnityScript don't have many learning resources available
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 Price is very high
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 Dark UI theme not available in the free version
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 Increasing number of bugs
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 Terrible scripting
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 Removed Boo support (partially)
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 Mobile builds (Android, iOS) take about 8MB at least
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 Performance could be better for 2D
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Backend Development
Frontend Development
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What are the best JavaScript templating engines?

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喻恒春YU HengChun喻恒春YU HengChun
喻恒春YU (20 karma) recommends
PowJS
New ideas and solutions, Real-DOM template engine
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 Real-DOM template engine
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Development
Open Source
Productivity
+ 1

What are the best open source programming text editors?

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ThanaenThanaen
Thanaen (220 karma) recommends
Visual Studio Code
It's just great. Really fast, with a lot of extensions.
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 Great performance
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 Active development
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 Extensions
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 Intellisense
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 Stable and Responsive
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Development
Open Source

What are the best open source IDEs for Java?

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Marco RonchettiMarco Ronchetti
Marco (40 karma) recommends
NetBeans IDE
I've been teaching for years using Netbeans
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 Good refactoring
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 Good support for integrated Database e Servers (E.g. Tomcat)
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 Easy to learn
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 Multiple revision control system integration
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 Fantastic Maven support
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 Cross-platform
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 Little support for UML
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Open Source

What are the best Linux distributions for an old machine?

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TirelessMilEspaineTirelessMilEspaine
TirelessMilEspaine (50 karma) recommends
BunsenLabs Linux
like its simplicity and looks works fast on older laptops
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Linux
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Laptops
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What are the best Linux distributions for laptops?

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ArticulateKotysArticulateKotys
ArticulateKotys (10 karma) recommends
Fedora
xmonad runs flawlessly on my laptop
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 Strong commitment to free software philosophy
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 Spins and Labs
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 Lots of packages available
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 Bleeding edge
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Linux
Open Source

What are the best Linux distributions for Gnome Shell?

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Francisco GarcíaFrancisco García
Francisco (335 karma) recommends
Ubuntu
I used for 12 years. Esay to install, good performance, a lot of help un internet
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 Great long term support release schedule (2 years)
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 Wide range of software out of the box
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 Lots of support
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Gaming
PC
Linux
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What are the best open-source games?

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Shaun FosterShaun Foster
Shaun (50 karma) recommends
SuperTuxKart
Brilliant game, suitable for all ages, and without violence, which is a big plus!
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 Good for kids
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Open Source
Web

What is the best Node.js-based CMS?

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HappyCacusHappyCacus
HappyCacus (150 karma) recommends
KeystoneJS
Great CMS with auto-generated admin, schemas...
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 Many cool features
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 Keystone has easy form processing
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 Effective session management
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 Easy to install and use
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 Easy email management features
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 Keystone uses MongoDB through Mongoose
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 Numerous amounts of templating engines are supported
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 Out-of-the-box Admin UI
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 Keystone comes with Express already configured
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Open Source

What is the best GNU OS?

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CaffeinatedMummuCaffeinatedMummu
CaffeinatedMummu (10 karma) recommends
PureOS
very good!
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Open Source
Single Board Computer
OSHW
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What are the best completely open-source (considering even the bootloader, all drivers, availability of Gerber files, etc) active single board computer designs?

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JC StaudtJC Staudt
JC (440 karma) recommends
OLinuXino (series)
Design files are readily available on OLIMEX's GitHub account page, and are constructed using KiCAD, a Free and Open-Source Software.
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 Designed using KiCAD
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 All source code available, including design files
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Linux
Open Source

What is the best Linux Display Manager?

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UnderstandingSvetovidUnderstandingSvetovid
UnderstandingSvetovid (50 karma) recommends
XDM
The most portable since X Window, one can tune XDM config files to allow WM selection and provide system buttons such as Reboot, Power off, Rescue, Screen resolutions and lock timeout But also theming and background pictures. xmessage, xclock, xset, xsetroot and shell scripts are the XDM companion softwar...
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