Uhh, you're probably going to use gcc. There are two general schools of thought; the first is to use vim (lol keymacro hax) and script your own compile/debug shortcuts to launch gcc and gdb. It's like the third step to Satori, you can't miss it. The other option is to write the code on windows, then remotely compile and debug it on your UNIX machine. You can probably write a custom build script for VS2005 which remotely compiles it (or cross compiles it using one of the gcc toolchains) and launches it through gdb on the target system. I had a similar system set up for writing and debugging NDS homebrew with a debugger; it's a bit of a nightmare to set up, but using VS for that kind of stuff is awesome in the long run.

Also, I am very very drunk right now.

Using vs would be quite difficult I guess. All that uploading ...

I'd prefere to install a linux with KDE (e.g. Kubuntu) and remote edit your files.
KDE is able to edit files "seemlessly" over the network (over ssh e.g.). This works only in KDE-Editors like kate,kwrite and some more I guess.
Just open "sftp://host.domain/home/yourhome/yourfile" and there you go

As Mushu said you could start using vim. But will be no fun the first few weeks.

When I first started learning to program I wanted to program IRC Services. For over a year as I was learnign and editing code in services I either used pico, or used ftp to download and upload new code.

But yeah...if you can use an ide you'de be in much better shape.