The Visual Studio options menu is an abomination of a GUI. The things you need to change to do any particular task, like integrate a library, are scattered around multiple different pages. It's also very easy to screw things up, so that only debug or only release mode work properly.
I lived the pain of hunting for binary downloads that match my exact Visual Studio version. Even if you were lucky enough to not need to compile from source, you'd still need to manually configure each library and include path for both debug and release mode separately. And, when you later move the project onto a new computer or share it with a friend, you're likely to discover that hidden somewhere in that mess is a path that's no longer valid.
By comparison, adding a library on Linux is usually trivial. Call 'apt install foo', call 'FindFoo' in your CMakeLists.txt, and use the variables FindFoo provides. Done.
The Visual Studio debugger, Intellisense and plugin integration are great, but project configuration is atrocious and nobody should be emulating Microsoft's approach on that.
I lived the pain of hunting for binary downloads that match my exact Visual Studio version. Even if you were lucky enough to not need to compile from source, you'd still need to manually configure each library and include path for both debug and release mode separately. And, when you later move the project onto a new computer or share it with a friend, you're likely to discover that hidden somewhere in that mess is a path that's no longer valid.
By comparison, adding a library on Linux is usually trivial. Call 'apt install foo', call 'FindFoo' in your CMakeLists.txt, and use the variables FindFoo provides. Done.
The Visual Studio debugger, Intellisense and plugin integration are great, but project configuration is atrocious and nobody should be emulating Microsoft's approach on that.