A Few Things I Wish I Knew Before Writing .NET On Linux

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I am your host, Jamie "GaProgMan" Taylor. In this episode, I wanted to share with you all an edited version of a talk that I gave at the Orlando .NET User Group back in January. The talk is about some of the things that I wish I knew about before I started wrtiing .NET on Linux. I've used Linux-based operating systems on my computers for around 10 years, and using Windows only when I need to. This is a personal choice, but with the prevalence of "Linux on the desktop", I thought that I would share some advice and experience for those who are looking to use a Linux desktop as a development environment. As I said earlier, this is recording is taken from a talk that I gave at the Orlando .NET User Group. I would recommend joining this group, as they are wonderfully approachable and have lots of very interesting talks. As with a lot of meetup groups, they are currently hosting their events online, so you don't necessarily have to be in Orlando to attend. I'll leave a link to the meetup group, the video version of my talk, and the slide deck in the show notes. The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at https://dotnetcore.show/episode-92-a-few-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-writing-net-on-linux/   Useful Links from the episode:

• The Orlando .NET User Group
• The slide deck for this talk
• Installing WSL
• List of Linux Distros
• Run Linux in your browser
• Download Ubuntu Desktop
• Ventoy - run many different Linuxes on your USB memory stick
• Install .NET on Linux
• EndeavourOS - similar in style to MacOS
• Linux Mint - similar in style to Windows 98 through XP
• WINE - for running Windows applications on Linux
• Debugging & Tracing
  • SOS
  • dotnet-dump
  • dotnet-gcdump
  • dotnet-trace
• Support
  • Digital Ocean Tutorials
  • Arch Linux Wiki
  • Linux4Noobs subreddit
• Extra Information
  • DistroWatch
  • Linux Unplugged
• Jamie's Podcasts
  • The .NET Core Podcast
  • The Waffling Taylors
  • Tabs & Spaces

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