>>>If developing something in C# or web I'd target Mono if ok with money source: owned by MS and not fenced in by Windoze.
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>>But then, again, one would have to start reading books/articles (in order to learn Mono). And there lies the problem of not having motivation to learn new technologies.
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>Not really. You could install Mono dev on any win machine, and from there on it is just using the Mono API, which ***sometimes*** is different from .Net on Windows. MAny issues you run in probably fine to resolve via specific googling, stackoverflowing or reading Mono fora.
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>Either porting or wrapping some of the interfaces you already use.
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>Later on you might try to test finished app on Linux VM, but for first step you could stay inside Win for dev and hope for 0 problems
Thank you for your suggestions. I am not being contentious but doubt that I will ever get there.
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