Originally Posted by
Calmatory
You can get GCC on Ubuntu by using apt-get from terminal.
Specifically: "sudo apt-get install build-essential", which will install build-essential package, which includes - as the name implies - tools essential for building software(GCC C++ compiler(g++, just try that from the terminal), make, some development headers and libraries etc).
GCC C compiler(gcc) comes with the installation by default.
There are some nice IDEs for linux, but unfortunately nothing to match MSVS. Eclipse, Anjuta, NetBeans, Code::Blocks etc.