Where did I say ndiswrapper had anything to do with Visual Studio?
All I said is that I did some modelling of development code using the extremely user-friendly environment of the Visual Studio IDE.
When somebody provides as nice an IDE for Linux, I’ll consider using it for modelling.
Meanwhile, for development in the Linux environment, printk() is my friend.
“The complications with Linux running Windows applications...” ? The only Windows application it would need to run for this purpose would be Visual Studio. ndiswrapper would be out of the picture.