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Microsoft Continues Porting Visual C++ To Linux (microsoft.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader Billly Gates shared some news from Microsoft's Visual C++ blog: Visual Studio 2017 now lets developers write C++ code for Linux desktops, servers, and other devices without an extension, targeting specific architectures, including ARM:
Visual Studio will automatically copy and remotely build your sources and can launch your application with the debugger... Today Visual Studio only supports building remotely on the Linux target machine. It is not limited to specific Linux distros, but we do have dependencies on the presence of some tools. Specifically, we need openssh-server, g++, gdb and gdbserver.
The only advantage of Windows over Linux is that the drivers mostly work. And that's not because of anything Microsoft has done, it's entirely the doing of the device manufacturers.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
You do realize that most of the complaints you have are basically moving a Linux desktop more toward what MS has done with Windows desktop
If that's what you think, then use KDE, it's smoother, more flexible and more sensibly organized than Microsoft's Windows GUI. And doesn't lean on a horrible centralized configuration hack like the dconf, gconf or registry monstrosities. A lot of the Microsoft envy that Gnome devs suffer from is just pure brain damage, as evidenced by Gnome development falling off the rails multiple times. Sure, Microsoft had some good ideas worth learning from, but a lot of them, like the registry, are pure crap, apparently designed mainly to maximize the suffering of long suffering Windows victims.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.