Newbie to D, first impressions and feedback on the 5 (and more) first minutes.

[llaine via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 at 09:41:10 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 07:43 +0000, llaine via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn
> wrote:
> […]
>> [...]
>
> D is a problem on Fedora: dmd, gdc, and dub are not packaged. 
> ldc is so there is that – many would argue that having ldc is 
> much more important than dmd or gdc.  Yes there are dmd and dub 
> rpms but it is all very manual. There needs to be a repository 
> for Fedora rpms as there is one for Debian debs.
>
> I do not really have the proper resources to host such a 
> repository and because of this I have not built one. I know I 
> should rather than just moan, but Debian is my main platform 
> and that is covered.

So in your opinion Debian is the best platform for D development? 
Which IDE/Editor to you use?