On linux, I usually use gummi. You type your code on the left and the document is compiled using pdflatex in real time and shown on the right. It's handy if you're not doing anything too long since you can see where you've gone wrong as soon as you type it.
For longer documents that might take a while to compile (ie longer than a second or two, since you will notice this in gummi), I'd use Kile. The only time I've ever really noticed this though is if I have a good few graphics written with xy-pic to compile in the document, but in that case, you can use OnlyOutlines to remove that delay while you're working on the text.
On that note though, if you're writing a large document, you can set up a bare-bones environment that will be used throughout your document, write each chapter individually and then just input{} them into a master document in order as each one is finished, meaning your compile for each section you're working with should be fast enough to use gummi.
It's still in early development, so it doesn't have any frills like project support, or any way of editing more than one document at once without running another instance of it, but I still love it.
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