Mono is included in Ubuntu (and Linux Mint, and probably a whole bunch of other Linux distributions aswell these days). you'd have to go out of your way to remove it.

Not sure what you mean about (booting crappy Windows) for Unity, the splash screen can be removed in Pro, and while you do have to run Windows to use the editor that isn't a huge drawback. (Yeah, its annoying to use Windows but it isn't that crappy), When it comes to AAA game engines i'd agree that C# is not an alternative to C++, but when it comes to using game engines C# is a perfectly valid(and often preferable) alternative to Lua, Python or various proprietary scripting languages.

C# is put at the top of this forum

What does this mean?

Weird post. Trying to let off some steam after a failed learning attempt?

I found it to be one of the nicest and most complete environments I ever worked in. It's incredibly cool to be able to run the same binaries on Windows and Linux (and Android and iPhone). Porting has always been a big effort before. Mono also has the smallest overhead of all "managed" languages (like Python, Java, Ruby) and can bundle the Mono runtime with an application so users get a single executable and don't have to have Mono installed (between 1 and 2.5 MB - which is incredible given the extensive .NET BCL).

EDIT: Regarding the "hardly used language" bit - check the tag frequencies on StackOverflow, for example. C# is 3 times as popular as C++ there. It has almost driven C++ extinct in the business world. And yet is still mostly under the radar for Linux users. How popular it appears depends very much on which circles you frequent.

You've posted in a forum for an inactive/completed C# workshop -- I'm going to move you out to For Beginners.

it's even more surprising, that a hardly used language is put at the top of this forum

Putting the "hardly used" bit aside for now, the reason the C# workshop is listed towards the top of the forum index is to give more prominent/easier access to the items in that view that are absent from the actual site navigation provided by the drop-down menus up the top -- you'll notice the completed/inactive workshops (which are reasonably clearly marked as such) aren't included there at all.

Now that that little piece of administrative business is out of the way, let's get back to this little gem:

a hardly used language [referring to C#]

...and because it's related, this little nugget of wisdom from another recent topic:

90% is written in C++. Hence why bother at all about other languages?

Obviously you like C++. That's absolutely fine, it's your opinion and you are entitled to have and to express it.
Obviously you don't particularly like C#, or Java, or probably other languages. Again, that's fine, it's your opinion, and you're welcome to use and to not use whatever languages you prefer for your own projects.

Your beliefs about the languages other people use however, are simply outright incorrect.


Let's start with that "90% is written in C++". 90% of what are you talking about exactly?

If you're talking about video games, then you would be incorrect.

• Many older games were written in assembly, or in C, and games are still being written in those languages.
  
• Android games can be written in Java or in C++, and a significant number of them are written in Java.
  
• The only officially supported language for targeting iOS (iPhone, iPad, et al.) is Objective-C. There are work-arounds that allow usage of other languages (of which C++ is only one option), but these would not likely out-number the Objective-C and other languages (such as Flash).
  
• There are hundreds of thousands of browser based games: I'd posit a guess that the majority are Flash games, while there are others written in Java, Silverlight, JavaScript, or plugins such as the one provided by Unity. Where server-side logic is involved it is often implemented in PHP, Java or ASP. Sometimes it might be JavaScript (often via Node.js), Python, or Ruby. It's very rarely C++, which can be troublesome to work with on the server-side of a browser game. Facebook games are included here.
  
• There are many desktop games written in languages other than C++. Minecraft is Java. Terraria is C#/XNA. EVE Online is Stackless Python. RuneScape is Java. The list could go on and on. There are even commercially available games created with Game Maker (such as Legend of Fae).
  
• It's increasingly common in professional development to write the underlying engine in a language such as C or C++ and then implement higher-level functionality and game-play logic in a scripting language such as Lua, Python or others. Civilization IV used a large amount of Python, whilst Civilization V changed to Lua. Disney's MMO Toontown Online is implemented in Python, or top of the Panda3d engine which uses C++ for performance critical functionality. I believe World of Warcraft has some Lua scripting.
  

As you can see, there are an incredible number of games written in languages other than C++, and even when C++ is used it's increasingly common for it to be used with another language rather than alone. If you meant 90% of games, you're very obviously outright incorrect -- it would probably be fair to say that "C++ is one of the most popular languages in professional AAA games development", but the games produced by those teams account for far, far less than 90% of games in total.


Perhaps you didn't mean games though? Perhaps you meant all software? I'd be willing to bet that for all software you'd be even more wrong than if you just meant games:

• Linux is mostly (entirely?) C, not C++.
  
• Embedded software is often C or assembly, and there is a lot of it. Some embedded software is C++, or a sub-set there-of, but I'd guess this is probably not the majority. Phones, pagers, smart-fridges/toasters/whatever. Intercom systems. DVD/Blu-ray players. There is embedded software all over the place, and plenty of it is not written in C++.
  
• Web-site back ends are very often PHP, or sometimes ASP. Some of them use Python, Ruby, or Pearl. Some of them use Java, or JavaScript. Very few of them use much (if any) C++.
  
• Web-site front-ends -- and yes, most of this is just mark-up, which doesn't count, but some of it is programmed logic -- often use some JavaScript, or Flash.
  
• A lot of business software is written in Java or (especially in more recent years) C#. There's even a reasonable amount of Visual Basic out there.
  
• Plenty of legacy software is written in COBOL. You might also find some Fortran, lots of C, and plenty of weird mixes of various languages.
  
• Mathematicians and physicists use a lot of Matlab, and it's also common to find them using Fortran, and not-uncommon to find them using Python.
  

You're wrong about how much software is written in C++. Educate yourself, stop making such foolish (and easily disproven) claims, and move on.


You also claim that C# is "hardly used". Again, you're outright wrong. Just take a look at the number of jobs available for those with C# experience, and the number of questions being asked about the language in programming communities online. C# is a very popular language that is used extensively in the business world, and that is seeing increasing use for tools and scripting in games development. There are also many indie and hobbyist games developed entirely in C#.

Educate yourself, stop making such foolish (and easily disproven) claims, and move on.


You're entitled to your opinion, and it's absolutely fine if you prefer C++ for your own projects, but stop spreading factually incorrect nonsense as if you believe it to be fact.

Educate yourself.