> .NET 5 finally delivered Linux support but only eleven months ago

The previous versions in this stream (.NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0 and 3.1) also run fine on Linux. For web server / API server workloads, it's been stable for a lot longer than 11 months, and people do indeed "bet the farm" or "run the business" on it, quite happily.

Technically, this starts with .NET core 2.1 on 2018-05-30. The prior version, 2.0, released on 2017-08-14, wasn't _quite_ there yet although some people were happy with it for production use.

.NET has been on Linux for years now. And my company is using it in production on Kubernetes (Linux/Debian). Its crazy how dependable and fast it is. Startup times are amazing and its only getting better each year. We're looking to upgrade to .NET 6 in production by January.

Have you even seen the benchmarks compared to Java and other languages?

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...

If you're not paying attention to .NET its time to get your head out of the sand, seriously.

I've been using it exclusively on Linux since 2.0. Both running and developing.

The question was "at all." .Net has been available on Linux for ~18 years.