Are you using .NET on Arch Linux? Is the experience good?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/archlinux

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  • Nuget Package Manager

    Repo for NuGet Client issues (by NuGet)

  • Most recently, this bug was a bit of a pain but the AUR had my back with newer packages: https://github.com/NuGet/Home/issues/10695#issuecomment-826325127

  • core

    .NET news, announcements, release notes, and more! (by dotnet)

  • Please share if you want to see a better .NET experience on Arch. You can comment here or on GitHub.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Announcements

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  • Resolution: Notice: .NET 5 NuGet Restore Failures on Linux distributions using NSS or ca-certificates · Issue #56 · NuGet/Announcements (github.com)

  • azurelinux

    Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances

  • Here's a team I work with in Azure: microsoft/CBL-Mariner: Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances (github.com). That's just one example of Linux focus.

  • netcoredbg

    NetCoreDbg is a managed code debugger with MI interface for CoreCLR.

  • There is also this debugger developed by Samsung: https://github.com/Samsung/netcoredbg

  • Uno Platform

    Build Mobile, Desktop and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. Today. Open source and professionally supported.

  • Avalonia

    Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

  • 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.

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  • MonoDevelop

    Discontinued MonoDevelop is a cross platform .NET IDE

  • So MonoDevelop is dead: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop/commits/main

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • My preferred workstation for C# in particular is through Visual Studio Code, package visual-studio-code-bin using these three extensions:

  • FrameworkBenchmarks

    Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project

  • See this page. ASP.NET Core is #8 in this benchmark, running a web server on Linux. Round 20 results - TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks

  • announcements

    Subscribe to this repo to be notified of Announcements and changes in .NET Core. (by dotnet)

  • I'm not entirely sure what that means. We're done porting .NET Framework APIs to .NET Core / .NET 5. .NET Framework is what it is now, and .NET is moving forward with .NET 6+. If it is worth porting your code to .NET 6, it is. If not, then it isn't. Both can be good choices. .NET Core on Linux, however, is absolutely not preview.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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