Windows or Linux

[Kernelpanic]

I'm hearing about this for the first time. The GCC is standard in every Linux distro, if it's not part of the Puppy distro then forget Puppy. 
In earnest, is there no guide on how one to correctly install the latest stable GCC 11.3; I think?
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Theoretically this is true, but only the C compiler is "required". Many distros don't carry the C++ compiler, will need that to create programs with QB64. Other programming systems want the "fortran" library for maths so that's usually pulled in as dependency of "gcc".

Even worse, a few distros could have the C and C++ compilers but a mind-boggling naming system which makes it difficult to locate the headers and libraries. This happened to me on Solus which forced me to investigate. It's one of the distros which specifically requires installing a "developer's package" on top of whatever exists considered to be "gcc".

I had SuSE on my computer alongside Windows for over 14 years, from version 4.3 to 11.2. After that only in the VBox, and now under WSL2 (command line only).

Since there was always enough space on the 2nd hard drive, I also tried a few others: Debian, Mandrake, Kanotix. . . SuSE has always been the best distro for me, and it still is today.

Since the sale to(?), the distro has gotten a bit skewed, in my opinion, but when I read about the problems others have with their distros, then SuSE is still the best choice for me.

The beginning: