I disagree with this comment because, while everything said is technically true, it ignores the fact that it's a big trade-off. Going with "the operating syste

I disagree with this comment because, while everything said is technically true, it ignores the fact that it's a big trade-off. Going with "the operating system you are using" does optimise quite a few things; these are the "pros" of this approach, things like: - not burdening yourself with the learning curve of a new OS at the same time as you undergo the learning curve of programming - being able to ease the programming effort by taking advantage of microefficiencies you've already gained from friend use of the OS. - etc. This has to be weighed against potential cons though: - how long do you intend to program for (presumably some large multiple of the time it would take to learn a new OS) - what is the actual difference in overhead of using development tools on the two OSes–if you're repeatedly undergoing a little extra overhead for every dev task on your current OS, this builds up over time - if you intend to simply defer learning Linux to a later date, what's involved in switching your dev setup over? Will there be habits and disinformation to unlearn in the process?