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Actually I agree with what he says about PROGRAMMING for Linux. However after Visual Studio 6 (? about 2005?) Windows is fragmenting and the newer "models" promoted by MS have pluses & minuses. Their idea of using one model for desktop and phone was nuts. Even when I was doing Java an application for a desktop was a different design to an application for a small screen, or even a tablet (multiple windows + mouse + keyboard vs usually one window and only touch, even if a 10" screen).
I'd hate to be writing applications for Linux part time. It would need to be a full time focus. I looked at various approaches inc QT (unfortunately Nokia bought Trolltech).
I've done non-GUI programs in C and C++ on linux and one Java application for Linux, maybe 15 years ago. I liked Modula-2 on DOS, VB6 on Windows. C++, C and C# a bit of a pain on Windows compared to VB6. The VB.net is a C# programmer's concept of VB. C# is really an MS development of Java. Java and .net versions are minefields. Did DOS based C and C++ in late 1980s.
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