Honestly I really don't mind parts of the Microsoft experience. Visual Studio is a pretty good IDE, and VS Code a lighter, more extensible alternative for some

Honestly I really don't mind parts of the Microsoft experience. Visual Studio is a pretty good IDE, and VS Code a lighter, more extensible alternative for some specific cases (I use it to fiddle with our Angular frontend apps). The .NET ecosystem is pretty good, and the Windows UI on its own would be pretty good even if I prefer a tiling window manager like xmonad. I can use cygwin and get a decent enough set of Unix-y tools that feel more "right" to me than Powershell (which I don't think I'll ever enjoy). So that sort of stuff allows a decent enough, but not perfect, developer experience. But there's enough other fucking irritating bullshit that drives me up the wall - like Outlook is cluttered and annoying, and yeah Teams can fuck right off.