I use Code::Blocks for C++ under Linux. It's close enough to MSVC that you should be able to start with it pretty quickly.

Most Linux distributions will include the gcc compiler (invoked on the Terminal; I've used it for compiling small programs with two or three source files and it worked great).

There's also the absolutely hideous KDevelop that comes with KDE - last time I used it, it was truly terrible and was capable of basically nothing, but that was ages ago so it must have improved since then.

I'd avoid Eclipse for anything other than Java. For all its multi-language, user friendly propaganda, it was a total pain in every orifice trying to get it to work with anything other than Java. Even following the official instructions to the absolute letter was a no dice situation, it just wasn't for doing it and I had this problem with PHP and C++ even with all the required gizmos downloaded and installed, just a sea of error messages and total frustration for me. Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely great for Java but piss poor for everything else unless you have the patience of Jesus to get it all set up and working.

I've never used Code::Blocks but I've heard more than enough good things about it, so it's definitely worth a try.

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Most Linux distributions will include the gcc compiler (invoked on the Terminal; I've used it for compiling small programs with two or three source files and it worked great).

Yeah most Linux IDEs use gcc for actual compilation. Unless I'm working on a remote machine, though I prefer an IDE if a good one exists.

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There's also the absolutely hideous KDevelop that comes with KDE - last time I used it, it was truly terrible and was capable of basically nothing, but that was ages ago so it must have improved since then.

Yeah I don't recommend KDevelop either. It feels so bloated for what it gives you.

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For all its multi-language, user friendly propaganda, it was a total pain in every orifice trying to get it to work with anything other than Java. Even following the official instructions to the absolute letter was a no dice situation, it just wasn't for doing it and I had this problem with PHP and C++ even with all the required gizmos downloaded and installed, just a sea of error messages and total frustration for me.

Yeah I didn't want to mention it because I really didn't try to hard, but I also couln't get Eclipse to work. I tried for C++ and Ocaml, but without luck. I think it's just so different from other IDE's that it was thoroughly non-intuitive and I didn't want to spend that long learning how it works.

Code::Blocks is definitely the best I've found for C++. For all other languages, I fall back on gvim and command line tools.

I have yet to see GCC actually fail at something performance-wise. I mean, my Gentoo box was compiled from scratch using GCC, and its super fast (we're talking an entire OS compiled using GCC, so that must mean something!).

Completely useless. Use some kind of makefile system to call GCC for you, otherwise you will drive yourself insane within a matter of minutes.

"make" itself is servicable, although I find it obtuse and archaic. I liked SCons. Assuming you're not using an IDE, of course, because the IDE typically generates makefiles for you.