Visited the UK recently and had to obviously go through the same thing; had to click "I just want to use the online thing" 3 times. Was very frustrating.

Someone else commented on this already, but I had to fly Ryan Air while I was there and after booking the tickets, I found out that the only way to get a boarding pass is by installing their app.

It's quite bleak.

Signal is also down for me.

My messages are not getting through, but status page seems ok.

Seems fixed now.

Author of Odin is also against adding a package manager: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-manage...

Avalonia - https://avaloniaui.net/

Just the amount of perf improvements they have added since .NET 4.8, year after year, is staggering.

Have you tried Rider?

Yes, it was a bit rough originally, but they've managed to make it better, sadly some employers do not want to buy into JetBrains.

I hear a lot of complaints about dotnet watch, but my experience doesn't match. I just use it from the terminal (instead of running it from an IDE) and it mostly just works.

I'll add Orchard CMS to this list. Also a lot of the seven seas software.

csharpier is great. It is what "dotnet format" should be.

I mentioned this another comment, but the LLM requirement is more of a nice to have. What's more important is the overall experience: linux support, good trackpad, nice keyboard, battery life, screen, customer support experience, etc.