[Crespyl]

As a developer, using Windows for anything that isn't Visual Studio related can be kind of painful compared to Unix-family systems, especially in the open source world.

Getting a decent command line, until very recently, required awkward work-arounds like Cygwin, and a lot of common dev tools tend to feel like second-class citizens. Package/dependency management just wasn't there, though I hear they're starting to fix this.