I guess that taste in IDEs is a very personal thing. I am using Visual Studio 10 at the moment to do C++ coding and it is by far, and without question, the worst IDE I've ever used.

I find it slow, buggy and quite unfriendly. My guess is that people pay money for plugins to get it fit for purpose.

IDEs I prefer: Eclipse, Netbeans, IntelliJ, QtCreator