Clarification for Debian!
I recently installed on Debian 13 as well and these are the instructions I followed: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debian?tabs=dotnet8
The instructions say Debian 12, but they do work on Debian 13, FWIW.
Depending on your distro, you may have the .NET SDK in your packages already. Debian doesn’t have it. I’m not sure about Mint. I use Ubuntu MATE and .NET 8 is available. Check with this:
apt search dotnet-sdk
If you see something like dotnet-sdk-8.0 in the list, this will install everything you need:
sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0
If it’s not available in the package repo, it’s not difficult to install manually. Follow the instructions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux?WT.mc_id=dotnet-35129-website#manual-installation
For my development environment, I use VS Code with the following extensions:
Once you’ve installed the SDK along with VS Code and the associated extensions, getting started is as easy as:
dotnet new console -o HelloWorld
cd HelloWorld
code .
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