> most of the windows menus don't let you search for an entry, This has nothing to do with MS. I am surprised you mentioned this since it is the norm that apps

> most of the windows menus don't let you search for an entry, This has nothing to do with MS. I am surprised you mentioned this since it is the norm that apps do not have this on all mainstream OS'es. I hate it too, but that is how it is almost everywhere. That is one of the MAIN reasons I prefer Visual Studio Code - CTRL + P and type anything in the menu item name to get the fuzzy search (plus that item is now first on the CTRL+P list next time). Vim has this too, via plugins tho. > Like searching for a table among hundreds in SQL server management studio Yeah, the same thing. I recommend dbeaver which, again, has fuzzy search on table names. Windows+.NET stack is how you make it, the fact that people use MS stack mostly is not MS fault. I personally know .NET project manager and he doesn't use "the stack" but Vim and friends.