The vast majority of .NET developers are working on the Windows platform. This is no coincidence, as the older .NET Framework was tied to Windows. With the introduction of .NET Core and modern .NET, this has changed - .NET from Microsoft has become cross-platform capable. Also, there are two powerful IDEs, Visual Studio Code (incl. C# DevKit) from Microsoft and Rider from JetBrains, which also support multiple platforms. This means that there is no longer much to stop us .NET developers from switching to another platform. Or is there?

In 2022, I took the step away from Windows to macOS. In this presentation, I would like to talk about my experiences. What works well, what works badly and what works even better. We will also look at which other tools for .NET developers have made it onto other platforms - and which haven't (yet).