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Damselfly
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
You download the .NET SDK from https://dot.net or your distro's repositories and install it. You get yourself an IDE (Rider, you need to pay but it's worth it) or editor (VSCode or VSCodium are quite good) and just start programming. Just think of it like any other language like Python or Java, where everything works everywhere except the system-dependent stuff.
+1. Professional dev who works on Windows at work, but also uses Rider on Linux. In my spare time I also develop an FOSS (here) app which was built entirely using VS for Mac (I don't have any windows hardware at home at all). Basically, the tl;Dr these days is you don't need windows for dotnet, just pick the OS you prefer.