It'll never happen again, but I really loved the way QBasic was an entire self-contained IDE and environment in a box.
Trying to jump from there to doing anything with C++ in the days of mingw and Bloodshed DevC++ and Win32 was... not pleasant.
Trying to jump from there to doing anything with C++ in the days of mingw and Bloodshed DevC++ and Win32 was... not pleasant.
You download a single binary and end up with the scene graph editor, a gdscript editor, and all the other bells and whistles you need to immediately start.
Ubuntu does not come with compilers preinstalled, and I believe the same is true of Fedora. Debian might, but it always was a technical distro. The popular ones tend to leave out development tools for the sake of not confusing the mythical Average User.