Developing for Linux

One of the first pieces of software written for Linux was GCC, created in 1991. GCC is the Gnu C Compiler, and it was used to build a lot of the software that became part of the first distro later on. You can still use GCC if you want to, but today, there are many other development tools available to use. For instance, Python is part of most distros. So, if you want to use Python, you can type the python3 command into the terminal, and you are ready to go. But we do not do Python; we do .NET. And that means we have another road to take.

Installing .NET on Linux

I mentioned previously that Linux usually has a lot of development tools pre-installed. However, .NET is not one of those pre-installed environments. The good news is that it is not hard to install.

Before I tell you how to get .NET on the system, I want to discuss my choice of development machines.

I love Visual Studio. I think it is by far the best IDE available. There are others, and I know...