I'm a c# dev with near 20 years experience, and I finally got the shits with advertising in the start menu. Arch Linux, because I figured why not do it properly?
I game a fair bit, and find most things on steam just work.
But I found that the Bottles project pretty much solves this, by installing everything in some kind of sandboxed environment:
https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles
Has worked wonderfully for the few cases where plain Wine failed.
they don't have sandbox. only if you install the flatpack AND DISABLE SOME CONVENIENCES you actually get something I'd call a safe sandbox.
but their site lies and make you feel safe while being extremely vulnerable installing cracked games (which is what everyone used bubble for).
Which IDE do you use? JetBrains Rider?
I mostly use VS Code to be honest. I use VSCode for other languages and for a long time it was the only graphical editor to have good remote development (over SSH) support.
Rider has that feature now though and is pretty nice too. I typically jump over to it when I need to profile something as it integrates with dotTrace. If you're coming from full-fat Visual Studio you'll probably prefer Rider.
My personal dev is shifting to Rust.