I was contemplating switching to Linux for C++ development, coming from a Windows environment. Is this a bad idea? My workplace uses Windows and Visual Studio for our projects (some C# and java too, but right now I'm only developing in C++). If they decide to put me on a C# project, would development still possible (mono?)? What are the difficulties in this sort of transition?

Would I have a problem working on their projects and vice versa? I read somewhere that there'd be problems with precompiled headers and such (we do use them), and encodings (tabs/spaces, line endings, etc)..

If it's not too hard to do this switch, how do I get started? IDE? vim+make?

Thanks.

By the way, we make MOSTLY windows software..

EDIT: Thanks guys, I guess that makes sense..