Mono Directions

Not trying to start a flamewar, but I haven't found a better one for c++ and I've been looking. Anjuta is way to simplistic, and I'd rather not have to install kde just to get kdevelop.

You just admit you have not been looking. Dismissing sth is not looking.
Anyway, you have your opinion. But I and several other developers use these IDEs without problem.
Sure, they could improve, but they are way better than Eclipse.

Eclipse is annoying in it's utter slowness even on a high end machine

And that's the only reason you insist that Eclipse is the best IDE on Linux : to then come to the conclusion that IDEs on Linux all sucks. I see where you come from.

If you have any good recomendations I would be happy to try them out. I'm looking for an ide with code completion. Otherwise I just use vim.

And yet Anjuta (1.x) and Kdevelop both have better code completion than vim. Hell, even Emacs have better code completion.

FUD! I run tomboy f-spot and beagle without any special configuration

You don't know what you talk about then.
There are basically two ways to run mono apps on Linux:
- Adding a script for every mono apps, that launch the exe with sth like : 'mono app.exe "$@"' (tedious, that's what gentoo does)
- Have the misc formats compiled in the kernel, and activate it to launch mono automatically for .exe files, which imply putting a config in the kernel through proc/sys/whatever (that's what I do).
So stop calling FUD when you don't know what you are talking about, please.
I understand better now your BS though.

most java programs expect some sort of JAVA_HOME and a perticular jvm

Which is way different from requiring kernel config.