[vsuperpower2020]

I don't bother making anything run on linux unless it's meant to run as a service. It's just not worth the time and trouble to test it on multiple operating systems, probably with different libraries, just for what is a very vocal minority.

[giancarlostoro]

I have a really random winforms project I opened up the debug build of on Linux with Mono and had 0 issues. The bar can be very low.

[kid64]

Wait, that project actually got off the ground? Is this something you're using in production? What's a good starting point?

[realusername]

Windows has a bit less than half the marketshare for developers according to the last Stackoverflow suvery. By not having a Linux and a MacOS version, you are losing close to half of developers.

Even Microsoft themselves understood this.

[justin66]

There are a couple of problems here.

Half of Stack Overflow "developers" might not use Windows, but the relevant population to measure is C# developers.

Assuming as many Linux C# developers will buy the thing as Windows or MacOS developers do is an obvious mistake.

> Even Microsoft themselves understood this.

Microsoft understands, among other things, that they can't charge money for Linux tools.

[jagger27]

Or use a Flatpak.