The one thing I really miss about Windows is the Visual Studio debugger -- it was frickin' awesome even back w/VS 2005 and I have to believe it's gotten better.

The one thing I really miss about Windows is the Visual Studio debugger -- it was frickin' awesome even back w/VS 2005 and I have to believe it's gotten better. On Linux I use ddd, and while it's definitely quirky (in that weird X way), it works just fine. I would guess that many of the poster's problems have to do with Linux's mediocre GUI support in general. I've recently switched to doing development on Ubuntu (vs. RH/CentOS) and all the GUI stuff works much better in that environment, incl. ddd. I haven't tried Eclipse's C/C++ debugger, but its Perl debugger (part of EPIC) is quite nice and works well on both Mac and Linux.