That makes it an instant no-go for me. I'm not a software packager and I'm not becoming one to try new and unstable C# tooling.
Visual Studio Community was a pretty terrible experience and I don't intend to spend more of my time on unreliable Microsoft products.
Instructions for Debian[1], Fedora[2], Centos[3] and Ubuntu[4]. These all seem like pretty simple copy+paste instructions.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxdebian [2] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxfedora [3] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxcentos [4] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxubuntu
That vs. adding a single line in my list of selected packages. The price to adoption is high and it's just not worth it to me, especially seeing how immature the tooling and overall ecosystem is.
I choose to trust Debian maintainers; I don't choose to trust Microsoft.
If the package ends up in Debian stable, its pretty much guaranteed to be stable and to at least install and uninstall cleanly and consistently; it also won't have builtin telemetry because that's Not Done in the Debian distribution.
With the beta stuff provided by Microsoft there's no reason for me to assume a similar level of diligence.
But surely there's no reason why we can't have both?
Kinda the opposite of IDE-centric development, but the available Xamarin tooling didn't support that way of working.