I personally develop on Linux, SCO Unix, Dos, Win95/98/NT/2K, and anything can get my hands on. We all know an open source platform is better (and if you don't you should know better) but you must consider that a programmer is not developing for himself - he is developing for the user. If the user does not run *nix and needs to run a win-32 platform then break out Borland C++ Builder, MS Developer Studio, Cygwin, or GCC for Win32 and write them the best program you can. If the user runs Linux or another *nix or the program can run on the server side, by all means develop on Linux. Compare the programmer to a DJ. You don't play just the music you want to listen to, you play what your listeners want. Some of them are listening to the Linux tune and some to Windows. Play them both. It's about freedom man. Don't limit yourself to one platform, language, toolkit, or audience. A true guru can develop for them all, depending on what the user needs.
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I personally develop on Linux, SCO Unix, Dos, Win95/98/NT/2K, and anything can get my hands on. We all know an open source platform is better (and if you don't you should know better) but you must consider that a programmer is not developing for himself - he is developing for the user. If the user does not run *nix and needs to run a win-32 platform then break out Borland C++ Builder, MS Developer Studio, Cygwin, or GCC for Win32 and write them the best program you can. If the user runs Linux or another *nix or the program can run on the server side, by all means develop on Linux. Compare the programmer to a DJ. You don't play just the music you want to listen to, you play what your listeners want. Some of them are listening to the Linux tune and some to Windows. Play them both. It's about freedom man. Don't limit yourself to one platform, language, toolkit, or audience. A true guru can develop for them all, depending on what the user needs.