We are deploying .NET (Core) on Linux since soon 10 years. With hundreds of devs and dozens of services on thousands of servers.
We have not touched a Windows server in years.
In 2026 .NET is deployed like anything else into Linux containers and Lambdas. Obviously there are still people who love their ui based servers but that is because of that and not because of .NET.
Adoption of new features is gradually and explorative, obviously in an enterprise everything is on a LTS 2-3 back but adoption after that delay is rather quick to my observation.
.NET like Java have this "it is there and we extend it. And the new platform is also .NET because you have your dozens of devs already"
We have not touched a Windows server in years.
In 2026 .NET is deployed like anything else into Linux containers and Lambdas. Obviously there are still people who love their ui based servers but that is because of that and not because of .NET.
Adoption of new features is gradually and explorative, obviously in an enterprise everything is on a LTS 2-3 back but adoption after that delay is rather quick to my observation.
.NET like Java have this "it is there and we extend it. And the new platform is also .NET because you have your dozens of devs already"