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Time to seriously consider moving to Linux. I just need a way to host a Visual Studio / IIS windows instance inside a Linux window manager... is that even poss

• Nerdfest 11y ago
  Run Windows in a VM, try it under Wine, or use Microsoft's cloud version of Visual Studio. Not sure about IIS for that one though. Better yet, stop rewarding a company that treats its users like pests and switch to open languages and servers.
  • 51Cards 11y ago
    Nice thought but not practical if he's developing for clients on those platforms.
• malbs 11y ago
  If it's a .net app can you just host it under mono? Do you really need to use Visual Studio? If it's C#/ASP.Net VSCode might be a possible replacement?
• hhandoko 11y ago
  If you need IIS, I doubt that you can get away without virtualisation. The easiest path is to use something like VMWare Workstation and run Windows as a VM. You can pin Visual Studio to the sidebar, and click to run it like it was made-for-Linux app (i.e. Unity mode). If you just need IIS (and can use MonoDevelop / Xamarin Studio) as an IDE (or just VS Code for newer stuff), then you can host IIS in a Windows Server Core in a virtual machine (less hardware requirements compared to the first option).