When I moved from Windows to Linux development I was concerned how that would affect me. Turns out not so much, I just don't debug as much on Linux :) IDE debuggers make it far too easy to press F5 and see what happens, make a change, press F5 etc without really thinking about what's happening. Iterative coding gone bad. The only time I use GDB is for the occasional segfault that I can't figure out from back-stepping a few revisions, and it always nails it (which is more than can be said for MSVC)