Why choose .Net over Java in this market?

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Why should (or would) a fresh programmer deliberately decide to take the path of C#/.Net over Java with the Java market booming right now?

The Java market isn't booming, it's a resource hog on any system I've used it. I need 16 gibibytes of RAM in my laptop just to run Android Studio and Visual Studio Code at the same time, among everything else I have open. The only market I see Java developers wanted right now is Android and that isn't even pure Java anymore, it requires special knowledge of their proprietary views and intents.

.NET, as much as I hate it, is much more popular right now and pays a lot better in my experience. I just refuse to work with anything Microsoft because I don't want my blood pressure to increase.

Definitely not the case in the states, at least going outside of of the west coast, this is what I've heard from others talking to recruiters on linkedin.

For starters, Java support is no longer free. Furthermore, Unity (which most 3D apps use these days) uses C#.

A lot of it is local markets, ie there's a lot of .NET roles around Redmond. Maybe they could pay differently.
I thought there were still plenty of Java roles.

This probably depends on where you want to program.

For what I understand a lot of the business world likes .Net/.Net Core and MVC.

In the environment I'm in we've actually extended this (not really sure if it makes that much sense but it seems to be what the clients want) to have .Net Core as the back end and Angular 7 as our front end.

That might even be worthy of it's own thread - how significant is the letup on server resources with Angular front-ends as opposed to Razor? Enough to justify the inconveniences?

The two are so similar it is possible to learn and use both. I've programmed commercially in Java but, at home, I prefer C# for my own projects. I never liked Visual Studio based on my past experiences with C++. But with C#, I actually found that I loved it (much better than Eclipse).

One of the disadvantages of C# used to be that it was very limited on Linux (via Mono) and it was difficult to write useful cross platform code. However, all this has changed in recent years with DotNet Core 2.0.