The other major feature of VS is the huge superiority of Microsoft's debugger when compared to gdb.

That's more a less the only advantage MSVC has for me. I use MSVC at work, QtCreator at home for my private projects. The debugger is the only thingie I'm using where I would give MSVC the advantage.

Ugh, yea, that's my only real* complaint about QtCreator (and for the OP, this same complaint currently applies to all non-VisualStudio IDEs, including DevC++). GDB, at least on Windows, leaves alot to be desired.

*I have a few minor 'feature requests' as well, but QtCreator is mostly feature-complete.

I'm hoping the progress being made on LLVM and Clang will soon be manifest in alot of good tools that are fully cross-platform - specifically, static analyzers, memory leak detectors, and a stable feature-full debugger.