Thanks Jonathan for telling it like it is (and enduring the flames). As much as I hate Windows and like Linux, I agree on all your points. (Audio sucks ass on L

Thanks Jonathan for telling it like it is (and enduring the flames). As much as I hate Windows and like Linux, I agree on all your points. (Audio sucks ass on Linux!) gcc/gdb tools suck because Stallman wants it this way. See Chandler Carruth's talk "Clang: Defending C++ from Murphy's Million Monkeys". Apple wanted to make gcc/gdb more modular, but Stallman doesn't want gcc/gdb to be modular and allow better tools because that would allow those tools to be non-GPL. So Apple spearheaded LLVM to ditch gcc. LLVM/LLDB might be the way to improvements, but you are also right that the skills in building these higher level tools are not the strength of the current open source community. So I don't end with a completely negative post on Linux development, Valgrind rocks!