I think there's a cultural element. Visual Studio, although apparently beloved, is just an IDE. Look at the rise of consoles, look at this thread. See the ta

I think there's a cultural element. Visual Studio, although apparently beloved, is just an IDE. Look at the rise of consoles, look at this thread. See the talk of there not being 'standards' on Linux and consider the biggest way the Linux community gets around that: Open Source codebases that rely on users who are also devs to help fix things up and get them working everywhere. Linux isn't an ideal 'uniform consumption device', so it's not an appealing target. Now it's starting to get some love because people are looking around and asking 'What about freedom?'.