Before the direct reply, I remember Judge Jackson. The ruling in the trial was quite hard hitting and many people were expecting something like the Bell System breakup. Likely three components, Operating Systems, Office, Dev Tools.

Back to working on Linux.

There's something to what you are saying. But it may partly be culture shock going from full IDEs to command line oriented projects.

I did some work with Visual Studio with C++ and liked it. Of course, the Windows API is so complicated you need as much help as you can get. Also a tiny bit of Visual Basic, which I found very quick to get things done with.

There are tools for Linux, of course.

For the Java folks, Eclipse runs on Linux.

For Python, the PyCharm IDE is pretty good.

Qt has visual tools that run on Linux.

VS Code runs on Linux.