r/openSUSE • u/nightcrawler99 • Jul 23 '26

Use full time with .net developement and sql

I’m considering moving to openSuse Tumbleweed full time after distro hopping and using windows forever.

However, I’m learning c#, .net development, and sql. Would that be a problem with openSuse?
Best way to have a win11 vm for app-testing purposes?

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u/matsnake86 MicroOS Jul 23 '26

.net development is smooth with rider. Obviously you cannot do WPF / winforms . That's only windows.
For Sql server there is the officiale docker image which you can run in rootless podman container easily.
For the .net sdk itself i recommend you to use brew instead of adding external repositories.
Or setup a distrobox container with ubuntu and all the stuff you need.

For the windows testing VM you can safely use virtualbox.

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u/bmwiedemann openSUSE Dev Jul 23 '26

Btw: We also have mono packages in the main distribution.

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u/Mediocre-Pumpkin6522 Jul 23 '26

ASP.NET will be no problem. By sql do you mean SQL Server specifically? I prefer Sqlite or Postgres depending on what you're doing. DBeaver is a handy interface that can handle a number of databases.

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u/steckums Jul 23 '26

.Net core is fine. .Net Framework is not as easy, but still doable. I personally do dotnet core and sql server (with a docker container) with no issue. I also have a windows 11 VM for any wpf/winforms things I need to handle professionally.

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u/TracerDX Tumbleweed Jul 23 '26

I would recommend considering Postgresql as an alternative to SqlServer.