I do all my editing in neovim, with omnisharp as an lsp. It works pretty well. Happy to send you my dotfiles if you want.
As far as deployment, dotnet just runs on Linux now, especially if you're do8ng web, its all the same. I deploy through containers to kubernetes, and its super smooth
Microsoft doesn't care about you upgrading your personal computer. they care about business licenses. Enterprise pays the bills, and enterprise computers have all had TPM for ages. I don't see any reason for them to make a change. consumers buying a new os for an existing computer is a drop in the bucket
I've been using my selfhosted mailserver on a cheap VPS for a few years with no issues. It took about a week to get DMARC/DKIM/SPF setup right, and then a few back and forth email threads to my email addresses hosted on gmail, yahoo, and M365 allowed me to gain trustworthy status with them.
mind you, I'm the only user of my mailserver, so I'm not worried about other users spamming and getting me on a list.
I saw one of these. Have you used it? Does it work okay?
What ui do you put on? Kodi? Or do you just run a full fat deskop environment?
I've done this in the past. I was mostly interested to see what others have done
Archive.org is the internet Archive, which runs the wayback machine
This is also true in the US. Its very important
Would you like to elaborate, or provide any information of value instead of just saying "nope"?