Comment by snarfy

2 months ago

Someone pinch me when VisualStudio runs under Wine/Proton with at least a silver rating. It is quite literally the only app keeping me on Windows.

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voidUpdate  2 months ago

Out of interest, what do you need visual studio for that you cant get on linux?

  • snarfy  2 months ago

    Of course, there are always alternatives, but as a professional software engineer there are times I need to use genuine Visual Studio for one reason or another.

    Why use Photoshop when Gimp is available? Fusion360 when there is FreeCAD? etc.

erikerikson  2 months ago

VsCode works fine on Linux

  • umanwizard  2 months ago

    VS Code and Visual Studio have about as much in common as JavaScript and Java.

    • erikerikson  2 months ago

      I have to admit it's been a bit but when I first made the transition after a couple years using JetBrains, everything I actually used in Visual Studio was in VsCode. I should also admit that a big part of Microsoft strategy from as far back as 2003 was to make things "easy" in a non-translatable way which kept people locked into Visual Studio. Having traversed this divide, I see it now as something akin to different languages for the same concepts. Not unlike learning further programming languages after your first.