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rottyguy on April 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler

I'd rather see C# across the board and write once run anywhere (eg release a linux distro with .net support built in).

voltagex_ on April 4, 2014 [–]

I'm fairly sure Mono is installed by default on Ubuntu. I'm not sure what happens to Windows Forms or WPF code in that case though.

ruben_varnish on April 4, 2014 | [–]

Wrong. It was default for a while until it got finally removed in Ubuntu LTS 12.04

But, you can easily add it back if you want to use a program that uses it (i.e. Gnome Do)

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