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Ultimately it depends on what you need and what you develop for. If you’re developing for the Linux kernel, I bet you’re missing out on some stuff. If you’re building web, it doesn’t matter. If you’re building docker images, you can do it on Windows/Mac, but there’s just better performance on Linux if you’re ever debugging speed. Java? Doesn’t matter either.
More specifically, Windows is an horrible environment for C, C++, or Rust, Haskell, or any kind of language where most developers do not like IDEs. Bad for Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl where IDEs do exist, but it's not a given that they are better than simple editors. Not really good for Javascript or any language with extensive use of dependencies and configuration. It's not better than Linux for any language, but it com…
Re: MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
#211For C/C++, in my limited experience, I'd say that Visual studio is fine. Though we're targeting Windows, so it's not as if we have a choice of OS there