Linux vs Windows: What do programmers use.

I was woundering if it is a common theme for most "Pro" programmers to use linux. I mean a book called C;Programming I have was written on linux. So which OS is it that programmers or hackers, per say, use?

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Huh? Flex, Bison, sed, etc... All of the "Linux" tools are also available for Windows.


The Win32 sucks big time. It was designed with the concepts of "shit", "poo", and "needlessly complicated" in mind. That said, I feel more comfortable working on Windows (for example, programming console applications) than Linux, because Windows has more software available (i.e. pretty much everything Linux has recompiled, plus what Windows has), the availability of better editors than that Vi/Emacs crap (I know I'm going to get bashed and called a bad programmer for this as if it had anything to do), and the possibility to use the keyboard for everything (try using the Keybaord to do anything in X).