Have LLVM, GCC or, say, Firefox or Chromium slid pretty far down that slippery slope? It might seem you're just looking for an excuse to make a straw-man of, wh

Have LLVM, GCC or, say, Firefox or Chromium slid pretty far down that slippery slope? It might seem you're just looking for an excuse to make a straw-man of, which is not a productive way to approach whatever it is that grinds your gears. You can build .NET (like the entire thing) on your machine (and the readme does a good job to guide you through that), it's just not a very practical thing to do for a regular user. Exact same reason applies to OpenJDK which is why there are usually community-maintained builds of it like Adoptium (besides addressing support-contract trap by Oracle which some of the "first-party" Java SDK builds are). In the case of Debian, it is the target audience for the use of dotnet/dotnet VMR. Why they are not using it is something I don't care about though. My choice would be something saner for daily driving like Fedora anyway.