| .NET Core is available for Debian, you just have to add Microsoft's APT source [1]. Fedora [2], Ubuntu [3], and FreeBSD [4] build .NET from source themselves. A lot of work has been done to make it possible to build .NET from source [5] without closed source components, so it might just be a matter of someone being motivated to create the package for Debian. [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-... [2]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dotnet8.0 [3]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dotnet8 [4]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/main/lang/dotn... [5]: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build |
I think telemetry collection alone should be a good reason for Debian to consider repackaging it. I don’t want telemetry to be collected on my GNU/Linux machine, thanks Microsoft, but you already have so much telemetry from my Windows machine, please leave my other machines alone.