>> You can code on Windows, with a free IDE (Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Community) and deploy to Linux. > You can't. You won't have access to Linux ecos

>> You can code on Windows, with a free IDE (Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Community) and deploy to Linux. > You can't. You won't have access to Linux ecosystem and mindshare if you do that Though it's no longer vendor lock-in per se, even if Microsoft closes .NET (Core) back or do something else equally nasty, since it was published as open source at least once and somebody will just fork it (see what happened to MySQL). Though .NET on Linux indeed doesn't seem to be as compelling to the community of Linux-first developers. It just has tough competitors that have been present here since forever.