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C# runs natively on Linux (have done for many years now). AFAIK even on Azure people prefer to run it on Linux machines (including the place I work for). Performance wise I believe it runs equal to faster. A lot of C# devs (majority) now work on none Windows machines (they were very quick to add support for the new Mac arch as well).

TLDR; C# the language is as good or even better on none-Windows nowadays.

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This is only true if you're talking about non-GUI apps. MAUI is trying to fix this but in my experience it has been a rocky start.

But for backend and CLI stuff totally agree, works great on Linux

> This is only true if you're talking about non-GUI apps

It is also true for GUIs if you're using Avalonia [0]. I use it to develop GUI apps on Linux, it works very well (Nothing I can show publicly, sadly).

Obviously it doesn't use native controls, but it is a solid GUI framework.

[0] https://www.avaloniaui.net/

CLI is one of my biggest pain points with C# on Linux. A lot of the Console functions simply don't work because they're expecting an entirely different kind of console. Just clearing the screen doesn't work, you have to sneakily pass a "clear" string to the input stream, or something like that.

Console drawing is an enormous pain. I went to a lot of effort to optimize my console writes to construct graphics quickly, and it just does not work on Linux. I'd have to switch to a curses type library and it just makes me sad :(

To be fair, the only real good solution that works for native crossplat GUI applications is Flutter. Most other offerings always end up being worse one way or another than Avalonia/MAUI/Uno.

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