Unless you want to work in VFX for things like physics, cloth / fluid simulation, rendering, etc, where most big studios doing the exciting stuff are running Li

Unless you want to work in VFX for things like physics, cloth / fluid simulation, rendering, etc, where most big studios doing the exciting stuff are running Linux and thanks to Maya and Houdini being built in g++ 4.1, all plugins (and therefore most of the rest of the C++ software stack) have to be built in the same version to match ABI compatibility.