What if you don't have aptitude (hint: apt-get won't work)? What if I don't want a command-line interface? What if I want to actually debug a large C/C++ codeba

What if you don't have aptitude (hint: apt-get won't work)? What if I don't want a command-line interface? What if I want to actually debug a large C/C++ codebase? Python/Ruby/etc. are also available on Windows, usually with friendly installers. Look, I'm all for Linux/POSIX from an operations standpoint, but the programming story is merely different, and to pretend otherwise makes one look foolish. EDIT: Also, as cobrausn pointed out, what about when the official sources for the package are hella out of date? Not so friendly then, eh?