JetBrains Toolbox App
Drop-in replacementFreeThe JetBrains installer for Linux. It installs Rider and the rest of the JetBrains IDEs and keeps them up to date.
Your files: Installs the same Rider, so your solutions and settings open unchanged.
Does JetBrains Rider run on Linux?
Verdict: Yes
Yes. JetBrains supports Rider on Linux and documents three ways to install it there, including the JetBrains Toolbox App, a downloadable archive and a Snap package.
Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE and Linux is one of its supported systems. JetBrains names Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04, Fedora 43 and 44, Debian 13 and Amazon Linux 2023, on the GNOME or KDE Plasma desktops. If you land on Ubuntu or Fedora, which is where most switchers do, you are on the supported list.
The route JetBrains recommends is the Toolbox App, a small manager that installs Rider, keeps it updated and looks after more than one JetBrains IDE at a time. A downloadable archive and a Snap package are the other two options, though JetBrains notes the Snap version can feel slower.
Plan for a reasonably modern machine. JetBrains asks for four processor cores, 8 GB of memory and 10 GB of disk space. Your .NET solutions open unchanged, but any part of a project that relies on Windows-only frameworks will still need Windows, and that is a .NET question rather than a Rider one.
JetBrains Rider on Linux, and alternatives
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