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Does anyone know if it can run Visual Studio? Would be awesome so i could switch to Linux for my Job
Visual Studio Code runs natively on linux. Not sure if that's what you meant though.
i think they're talking about the proper old visual studio, a full-blown IDE!
Yes, the full Visual Studio one :)
I suspected as much. I wouldn't expect that to work on Linux, especially since build the output is to be run on other Windows machines.
it's listed on the project's readme!
Ah thabks, missed it the first time reading through it
Probably!