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Rider is definitely the best IDE for .NET, regardless of platform.

I very much doubt it, given how InteliJ works on my laptop versus Visual Studio 2017.

Also where are Blend, the GUI tooling and rich debugging features from VS?

It is, I use both frequently and use Rider whenever I can and VS 2017 when working on projects Rider doesn't support. Although I don't use Designers so if you're building .NET GUI Apps VS 2017 would be better, but Rider is better for Web Apps, esp. Single Page Apps.

VS 2017 is the most unstable I can recall in recent memory, with constant crashes and White Screens of Death.

> VS 2017 is the most unstable I can recall in recent memory, with constant crashes and White Screens of Death.

Hmm, opposite of my experience. VS 2010 was the worst, and VS 2017 is actually pretty nice. Very frequent updates though, which is a little annoying.

2017 gets to be a little bit of a problem if you've got the Git tooling and ReSharper both going at the same time. On bigger solutions you're going to be hammering your disk swapping, so better hope you've got your code on an SSD, and that you've got exceptions in your antivirus to avoid real-time scanning those locations.

Thanks for the info all above posters. Sounds like dislikes for Rider are mostly from Windows users or people who need GUI support. I'm on Mac and have a lot of experience with Jetbrains IDE's so that's probably my best option.

I tried Rider may be 2-3 months ago and it was much much slower than Visual Studio 2017. I also had problems with font rendering (I use DPI > 100%) and all dialogs like open file are non-native, but from Java. Looks completely different than standard dialogs from Windows. So I will continue to use VS2017.

+1 for Rider or VSCode, twice Ive taken a laptop to a remote location and havent been able to login to VS and hence get no work done. The partner licensing for VS is apparently at fault.

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