I’m currently developing on Windows mainly, but due to the end of life of Windows 10, I might switch my primary OS to Linux instead. However, despite Linux being called “developer friendly” I always preferred the tools available under Windows save for the command line shell of Linux.

My main gripes with Linux development is with the debuggers. On Windows, I have RemedyBG, a pretty good debugger with an easy to use GUI. On Linux, all I have is either GDB or LLDB, and a command line so far.

I looked into some of the “more mainstream” GUI options for Linux, all of them were just a separate tab for the same command line debugger in a text editor.

Please note that I’m the sole developer of my projects on the side of a full time job, so I don’t have 1 month to spare to learn the in and outs of GDB, which in the days of useless AI slop articles littering the internet, might be even 1.5-2 months. I have a modern PC, any performance gains from not having a well-optimized GUI is negligible. No, I don’t care about scripts. And no, unless I’m actually writing the code, the mouse is faster, not slower.