a) There are a bunch of open source tools that are not well supported on windows. So somewhere along the way you might run into software that you need but doesn

a) There are a bunch of open source tools that are not well supported on windows. So somewhere along the way you might run into software that you need but doesnt work out of the box on windows. b) Linux distros have package managers which make the task of setting up development libraries a breeze. On windows youre still stuck installing each library by hand. c) If what youre doing is very well defined and all the technical pieces have windows installers then theres not much of an advantage moving to linux. d) If youre using the windows .net stack then again youre probably better off sticking with windows.