A no-doubt silly question about .Net

[kirbyrun]

There is a command line utility I'd like to run on my Mac that requires .Net installed.

I haven't had Microsoft software on my Macs in, literally, 20 years, ever since a bad Office install screwed up one of my machines back in the day. So I am a little wary of installing .Net!

Is there any risk in installing .Net? Anything I should be aware of? Is it going to slurp down all my RAM or run gross background processes that slow my Mac to a crawl?

I realize this may be a silly question, but hey -- what are forums for if not silly questions???

Thanks!

 

[bogdanw]

Looking inside the dotnet-sdk-8.0.400-osx-x64.pkg installer, it just puts everything in the /usr/local/share/dotnet folder. It doesn’t create any launch agents or daemons. Nothing should run in the background and uninstalling it should just be deleting the folder.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/macos

 

[kirbyrun]

Looking inside the dotnet-sdk-8.0.400-osx-x64.pkg installer, it just puts everything in the /usr/local/share/dotnet folder. It doesn’t create any launch agents or daemons. Nothing should run in the background and uninstalling it should just be deleting the folder.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/8.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/macos

Amazing. Thank you so much! Makes me feel a lot better about it!

 

[ThrowerGB]

I realize this may be a silly question, but hey -- what are forums for if not silly questions???

Your realization made my day. 😂 Thank you.

 

[kirbyrun]

Your realization made my day. 😂 Thank you.

I gotchu, boo. 😂🤣

 

[garethsuarez]

fortunately, .net Core is open source, and driven by a cross platform group, so the Mac install runs pretty much like a linux install, which is to say, it doesn't do a bunch of weird "microsoft things" to your computer (I've been developing using microsoft tools for 25+ years, and I will freely admit they sometimes do some strange things. But as my main workstation is either linux or mac these days, the .net core libraries are very nice and stay out of your way when you aren't using them)

 

[kirbyrun]

fortunately, .net Core is open source, and driven by a cross platform group, so the Mac install runs pretty much like a linux install, which is to say, it doesn't do a bunch of weird "microsoft things" to your computer (I've been developing using microsoft tools for 25+ years, and I will freely admit they sometimes do some strange things. But as my main workstation is either linux or mac these days, the .net core libraries are very nice and stay out of your way when you aren't using them)

Thank you! "Weird Microsoft things" is precisely what I feared!

 

[bradman83]

macOS doesn't allow apps to run in kernel space; everything has to be run in user space. This means its a lot harder for errant applications to screw up someone's machine.

 

[poorcody]

I can also vouch that .NET has really been optimized over the years to run like a lean, mean, runtime machine. Easy to run different versions on the same machine for example, and doesn't pollute the file system or kernel. Rest easy.