>>8
Need is a strong word, of course, but to add a pure anecdote, back when I was first starting out programming (C), it actually proved to be easier to switch to Linux than to continue on Windows. Switching to Linux only required that I learn a new OS and that I learn C, which were two somewhat orthogonal tasks. If I had continued on Windows (this was in the Bad Old Days(tm)) it would have required that I learn C and the foibles of whatever IDE/Compiler I picked, which were (to a neophyte) very subtle and inflicted constant doubt in my mind as to whether the language I was reading about and the language I was writing followed the same rules. I might have also been able to install GCC on Windows at the time, but that would have required about as much work as switching (perhaps more).

Nowadays, popular languages are more cross-platform, some computers have enough resources to run cumbersome IDEs, and to get around Windows' lack of a package manager many languages have reinvented that particular wheel, so switching may not be the easiest path forward. However, if, as you follow >>8 's advice, you find yourself irritated by the steps between [decide to write a program] and [start typing] or between [stop typing] and [observe the output of your program], you might be in a comparable situation to the one I was in.