people don't have a good answer for visual studio community edition when they talk about switching to linux. there are other ides that run on linux that potentially rival it in quality but i wouldn't know since i can't afford those. and the free alternative (vscode) is just flat out worse

say what you want about microsoft but if it weren't for their free offerings of visual studio i probably wouldn't even have a gamedev career

edit: non-commercial is incompatible with the whole "career" thing