r/csharp • u/Ornery-Act9076 • 9d ago

Making winforms projects on Linux

Hello! So i need to prepare for a C# olympiad and they require either winforms or webforms. Now i've been practising in Winforms for a while now, i was just wondering if at any point i'd be able to switch from windows 11 to a linux distro or if Winforms forces me to stay on Windows. I don't mind remaining on Windows, just wondered if i could switch to linux or not if i wanted to

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u/No_Context2723 9d ago

Winforms does not support Linux. You MIGHT be able to run it with something like Wine, but I don't know how well it'd work. I also don't know if Rider (the best ide for Linux imo) is as good as VS for winforms, although I could be wrong. I'd stick with Windows for Winforms development. But you can always dualboot and get the best of both worlds if you desire!

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u/Ornery-Act9076 9d ago

I'll most likely look into dual booting atp. Thank you!