Was stuck with cinnamon and xfce in my first few years of Linux due to crap hardware lol. It reminded me of windows XP/ 7 and I still prefer cinnamon over most other DEs

I would say frontend is harder than backend (if not more tedious). State management is a PITA, you have to learn X frameworks that do the same thing, and git gud with CSS.

@remindme@mstdn.social 1 year

t’s more socialist than communist imho /s

I use codium. It’s basically VS code without all the proprietary and spooky telemetry. Works well as vscode