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John McCabe

Simple; "the right distro".

I 've been using Linux as a development environment for 18 months or so, purely because I have to for the target tool chain. The choice of distro depends on someone at the tool chain suppliers end, since they only support 3 of the 9 million or so distro out there, so it's a compromise. On numerous occasions, having come from Windows, I'll search for "how to do xxx on Linux" and hear about some wonderful tool, only to find it's only possible to use it on some other bunch of distros I'm not using.

Until this fragmentation issue is sorted out, Linux will remain niche and, where possible, I won't be using it.