Our mono package hasn't been updated in two and a half years, so I don't know how useful that'd be. My impression has always been that if you want or need to do .NET development, you need to have Windows, whether it's in a VM or a bare-metal installation.
locusfokee01
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locusfokee01 What are the instructions for me if I want to install dotnet things?
As a Windows enterprise developer, I worked with .NET for about 15 years. .NET requires everything that it can do to be part of some huge libraries that are actually part of the OS. There was an attempt, called mono ("monkey") to port C# to Linux, but because all the functionality needed to be rewritten for Linux, the versions of mono always lagged far behind the current versions of .NET.
Being interested in both Windows (it fed my family) and Linux (on my own time), I was interested in being able to run many of the personal utilities I'd written for work on my Linux systems at home, but I was largely disappointed. For the most part, only the very simplest C# programs would run without extensive porting. And most of the ones I had a use for wouldn't build even then.
Mono is still a thing, and I assume it's still being developed. It's available in the Solus repositories. I don't know whether there is a viable F# counterpart to mono. Solus' Core Library and Tools component includes a compiler called fsharp , which I assume is somehow related to mono, but I don't know any details of that. You're welcome to install it and check it out!
realpathis a part ofcoreutilsand is installed by default. We don't have any .NET stuff though that I know of.nolan what i can understand you installed linux-lts and linux-lts-headers but you didn't uninstalled them, that's why you can't remove them from boot with clr-boot-manager.
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this explains whyclr-boot-mgrhas never done jack sh** for me ever? under any circumstance? any command? or ever following thru on a command? or making a command stick? this awful wretched cli tool needs you to do the work for it before it pretends to do the work?
[insert confused angry sick ulcer face here but I couldn't find it]- Edited
locusfokee01 I'm just in love with Solus.
As am I, for many years. I enjoy experimenting with other distros (using VMs), but my one true love is Solus.
Thanks for restating your situation. If I understand it better now, it seems to me that you want a way to remap the external keyboard in a way that does not affect the keyboard of your laptop. Is that true? If so, I don't know of any way to do that, as any code to remap a keyboard would have to run on the laptop itself.
Is it possible to find an online presence for the company that sells the keyboard, such as a user forum or customer service website? If there's a way to reprogram the firmware within the keyboard to change the key mapping, without affecting the paired device, that would probably be where you could learn about it.
Unfortunately, that's the only advice I can offer. You do have the most configurable edition of Solus already (KDE), but I don't know of a way that would allow you to remap the keyboard without similarly remapping the laptop's own keyboard. If a way exists, you'll probably need to find out about it from the keyboard's provider. Again, best of luck with that.
EDIT: If it might help, I can recommend the Arteck HB305 keyboard, which is what I use. It's also small, with no numeric keypad, but it does have all the standard keys, including the arrow keys. Its keys are real, not membranes, with a very good feel. It's as if the keyboard from a laptop were given its own case, for use with any computer. It connects via Bluetooth, and it can be used with up to 3 devices, as I mentioned. It costs a little less than US $20 here, from Amazon. If you can find a local supplier where you live that sells these, it might be the best solution to your problem. It's also rechargeable via USB-C.
