Oh don't get me wrong, I agree. They are unreasonably effective, but I think that's in large part because people have lost touch with reality. People tend not to think very critically about ads.
Switching to a more ethical model than advertisements hardly helps. Most tech companies are competing for people's attention, so making one platform less addictive just means the attention will be consumed by the next most addictive platform.
Ads aren't really the problem, either. It's the fact that people are willing to fork over so much of their lives to media feeds. It's a false community, a sea of information filled with faux connection.
The only way out of this trap is to invest in your local community. Meet people in real life and spend time with them and form mutual relationships. Media feeds aren't necessarily bad, but you need to prioritize them according to the innate human need for real community.
I work with .NET for my day job and my team doesn't use any commercial libraries. I haven't felt limited in any sense by the .NET ecosystem. Nearly everything is open-source, too.
If you've ever tried to stop doing something, going 90% of the way (e.g "I'll drink one soda per week") is often much harder than quitting entirely. This is particularly true with addiction where neural pathways need to be changed.
I am a full time .NET developer, experienced with both newer and older .NET versions.
They are confusingly named, but this is the gist:
- .NET Framework is the older version that is tied to Windows.
- .NET is the newer version that is cross platform, and was renamed from .NET Core.
Linux support is pretty good on .NET. I don't have as much experience with this personally since most of my company is still using .NET Framework, but I was able to get a simple .NET app running on Linux without any hassle.
The main web frameworks I am aware of are Blazor and MVC. Blazor behaves more like a single-page application (without needing JavaScript!) and abstracts away most of the headache of making dynamic web pages, but generally doesn't scale as well from what I have seen. MVC is a little more traditional but you need to write some JavaScript for interactivity.
I'm not fully sure what you mean by GUI heavy. Everything I am aware of can be accomplished with the CLI tooling.