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Have you tried the dotnet site: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/

It explains everything, including how to get started for every scenario, and answers to every question in all of your comments here.

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If the argument being made is ".NET isn't a language", and the response is "okay, then how do I install C#?" Linking the dotnet website probably doesn't advance the idea that C# and .NET aren't tied together.

How do you install Java? First thing you'd do is download the JDK. Is the JDK a language? No, it's not.

That's a fact, not an argument. And who said that C# and .NET aren't tied together? You install the runtime/SDK to get started with the overall environment, similar to many other programming stacks.

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