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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Any recommendations for Visual Development on Linux? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by engelsaxons@hexbear.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So I've done a bunch of application development in windows in C# and Java, and while Java stuff is pretty similar in Linux with Swing I'm not as confident in C# there (not too familiar with Mono), but I also want to diversify a bit too. Any recommendations?

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[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, you are right.

The old stuff, now no longer supported, is:

.NET Framework up to and incl version 4.8
Runtimes distributed as part of Windows
Mono is a Linux Runtime used for compatibility

The new stuff:

.NET Core, up to and incl 3, more recent versions are named .NET from version 5 onwards (to prevent mixing it up with the old Framework)
Is completely cross-platform, natively
I don't know about desktop specific graphical stuff but that probably depends on the specific library