Like any company, OutSystems looks at the market, and their market is 99.9% corporate development. In corporate environments, there's very little Linux adoption, so it would make no sense to cater to that market.

And honestly, though Linux has a special place in my heart, "there's been a massive uptake in users moving away from Windows and towards Linux" is a hyperbole that's been brought back to live for years now, but it's never actually happening. Desktop Linux is just not appealing to most of us.

Hi Kilian,

Its fair that their target market is corporate development which they are already catering for, widening the net would only bring more exposure which is win win for everyone involved including us as developers.

Before transitioning into a development career I have come from an corporate IT background which meant everything was windows, so I can see where you're coming from. However the applications built with the OutSystems stack are web & mobile technologies and accessed through the browser or directly from the mobile app. In my working experience with OutSystems in the corporate world a majority of the value OutSystems provides comes from being able to rapidly develop edge computing solutions, integrations and microservices that automate and streamline business process and this has not been dependent on the end users who consume these solutions having windows. 

System 76 is a great example of how Linux is growing and breaking down the barrier to entry for Linux by shipping ready to go hardware preloaded with Pop OS. 

https://system76.com/

I thought that with the introduction to .NET core there might have been opportunity for something like this to happen but the Mac version was released. 

Just makes sense to develop an IDE that isn't dependent on its host operating system, it would mean only having to maintain 1 version of the IDE and codebase while maximizing their reach as much as possible (currently having to manage and maintain 2 codebases windows and mac). If were talking big picture, long term vision for OutSystems. The investment in a platform agnostic IDE would pay dividends long term for the company and the community as a whole.

I just want Outsystems to continue to dominate into the future and I feel over the next few years there's going to be an even bigger push in the direction of Linux / decentralized privacy and security software / hardware solutions. 

Plus Linux just has that special place in the heart like you said haha!

John, this information is invaluable. Thank you for your efforts in the pursuit of getting this running within the Linux community. Your post has given me hope and allowed me to start exploring further.

Still using windows VM for my OS on my daily driver due to the JS node issues but you sir are a gentleman and a scholar!

2022 - Year of the Linux desktop. haha

My scenario, with PopOS under a Virtualbox VM: I was able to install wine 6.1 with dotnet40 and dotnet48 but the installer got stuck. Honestly I haven't dig much deeper yet.

I had issues with installing .net frameworks when using winetricks on 6.1.

If you follow alternate methods to get these installed and install the fonts required by service studio you might be in luck. However until we can nut out the javascript node issues that cause the crashes its still quite a pretty big limitation.

I understand the sentiment, but that's just not the reality. All OS's competitors target Windows and/or Mac as well, because the corporate world just doesn't care about Linux. There's very little (if any) Linux dev tools in the low/no code area. If you want to leave OutSystems for an option that supports Linux as IDE that's of course your prerogative, but I'd find it a bit short-sighted to choose a platform just because of the IDE.

Wrong. There's a lot of tools, some are even open-source (like the one that BMW and Cisco uses). There's Intrexx, PowerApps, Joget and Wappler only to name a few. All support Linux out of the box. Source Forge have a huge list of low code tools.

And it's not about the IDE. It's about the OS. I like Linux, and want it to be the main platform. Mac users have influence because they change the tool but don't change the system (like: "No mac version? Changing for another vendor" This was from this forum.), and I'll do the same.

Given the amount of low code tools there are nowadays, those few don't say much, but I'll give you that. 

Perhaps you are a freelancer that can choose what tools to use and pass up on a project if there's no Linux tools, but most OutSystems developers are working either for enterprise companies or have enterprise companies as customers. And most have made a career out of OutSystems. It's clear you are not in that situation, so by all means, quit using OutSystems because it doesn't support your fav OS. But for most people here that's either something we don't desire or can't afford.

Hi Hercules, I managed to get things working more or less with the exception of the JavaScript node issue explained above on PopOS. With PopOS and Ubuntu both being based on Debian I think your experience would be more or less the same if you followed the above steps. You would probably still be limited by the JavaScript node issues described above. If we can figure that issue out it would be the last step in in the puzzle and would enable seamless use of Outsystems on linux.