[elorant]

I'm on the same boat. While .net development is a breeze, the Windows ecosystem is a drag. I wish they could provide a Windows for Devs edition that would be stripped down to the bare minimal. The problem with Windows is that it's trying to be everything for everyone. One OS for multiple devices, instead of separating mobile/tablet from desktop as Apple did. Thus every stupid idea they come with is embedded in all versions of the OS. I'm serious contemplating the idea of moving to Linux, and the only thing that's holding me back is Visual Studio.

The one thing I can't stand about Windows is that they've added a bazillion of settings. It literally took me 6 hours a day just to go into every freaking setting in Control Panel, and I can't even remember where is everything. You have menus on the left, menus on the right, extra links on the bottom, a clusterfuck of UI design. For fuck's sake Microsoft, I just need an OS to do my work.

[wayneftw]

The last time I worked on a .NET Core (v2) project, I was able to do everything that I needed to on my Manjaro workstation.

One thing that I missed was SQL Server Management Studio, but Azure Data Studio was more than good enough and it even had some nice features that SSMS lacked, like project folders and GIT integration. SQL Server itself ran just fine in a Docker container.

A peer of mine is doing the same thing on the Manjaro desktop that I setup for him and he's using .NET Core v5.

[elorant]

Yeap, Azure Studio is good, and also fast. The latest SSMS is so sluggish.

Which IDE did you use to replace Visual Studio?

[bigmattystyles]

not comment Op - but vscode is great and portable. I've also used Rider but find myself going to vscode more and more, especially with ssh to folder to develop. That's a glaring omission in Rider - last I checked, they had this funky workaround but nowhere near as good.

[wayneftw]

VS Code