> Projects making use of Sitecore, Dynamics, SharePoint, SQL Server CLR,
What projects? None of those are forced on you or have any references to them built into .NET Core. I've been building .NET apps since 1.0 reached beta (in 2001?) I can count on one hand how many times in total that I've worked with those systems. This argument is a hell of a reach.
> GUI frameworks out of Redmond
The upcoming Microsoft MAUI is cross-platform (no, Microsoft isn't building support for Linux, but there are open source efforts working on it.)
What projects? None of those are forced on you or have any references to them built into .NET Core. I've been building .NET apps since 1.0 reached beta (in 2001?) I can count on one hand how many times in total that I've worked with those systems. This argument is a hell of a reach.
> GUI frameworks out of Redmond The upcoming Microsoft MAUI is cross-platform (no, Microsoft isn't building support for Linux, but there are open source efforts working on it.)
You can use https://avaloniaui.net or https://platform.uno
> Graphical tooling to deal with process dumps, etw data, and profiler information only available on VS.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dotnettrace-for-net-core-trac...
There's also https://github.com/SachiraChin/dotnet-monitor-ui
You can use JetBrains rider to profile in Linux/MacOS as well: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Profiling_Applications....
If you don't want to use .NET, you obviously don't have to.