Hello from Linux

- Finally decide between emacs and vim (though I'm leaning vim)

Don't like IDEs I guess?

- Learn how to compile windows software on linux

Assuming you mean C or C++, sounds like a pain. Why would you want to do that?

What stopped me from doing stuff with git before? Ignorance, and almost all tutorials are written for linux for git. All of the cool things I wanted to do had default tutorials in Linux and it became 10x harder to do in Windows.

Use a GUI like Git Extensions or SourceTree and you won't need to learn arcane commands, just how it works as a DVCS. The basic workflow is quite similar to what you would use with SVN.

I have an Ubuntu VPS that I host animerecs.com on and a KUbuntu VM on my computer that I use as a QA environment to test code changes and software upgrades before putting them on the server. Most development and testing is done in Windows.

I suggest Keepass as well, however mono is a pain in the plantain to install sometimes. This might also be due to my noobiness.

Just install the Mono package. If you need a newer version than what's in your distro's repository, then that might be a pain, but otherwise it shouldn't be different from installing anything else.