Yes, I was referring to the development platform: the platform which runs the tooling for development, cross compilation, downloading, debugging etc..
In my experience the decent vendor provided setups that actually work are all on Windows. STMCube and Keil for ST, Atmel Studio, Code Composer Studio for TI.
Yes you can absolutely compile on *Nix using GCC, but none of the vendors target their tooling for anything other than Windows.
Atmel provides their compilers, not their tooling.
I didn't know that ST provided STMCube for other platforms. That's the project generation tool (which is great), it's not the IDE debugging system you get with Keil (which is also great).
You've linked the 'lite' TI toolkit. CCS is available on Linux, but is even less reliable than CCS on Windows.
I'm not trying to argue that all development is done on Windows, or that it's even the best platform to do it on. I am merely pointing out that Windows is the first platform that is targeted for development by the big vendors. Also (more anecdotally) the majority of the companies that I work with and encounter do their embedded development on Windows, until you get to the size of part that is running some form of Linux.
While tooling can be better on Windows, and many do target it first, I took issue with the claim that no one targets anything but Windows.
Anecdotally, I just had Atmel recommend a switch from Windows to Linux, as their compiler toolchain "can work better there".
This space is more diverse than just Windows, and growing in that direction more and more. Atmel, Cadence and Qualcomm are just a few who welcome you with open arms.
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I don't know to many good systems engineers or security/forensics people who don't use Linux.