As some of you know, I'm running MSFS 2024 exclusively on Linux now. I was missing Addons Linker so I used Ai to code up a replacement in Linux. This is built in .NET with Avalonia for a cross-platform experience. I have enough experience with C# and .net in general that I can validate the code and make sure it doesn't do weird stuff. 

I am NOT releasing this for anyone else to use or anything like that.

Addons Linker (the real one) is built by @Bad_T and is an excellent free piece of software. I called my little program by the same name, but it's nowhere near as fully featured, and I built this for myself. Perhaps the original developer will build one for Linux, but I'm not stealing their name/ideas or trying to one-up them. I am, however, using it as inspiration to build my own little program that does just what I need on Linux, and I'd like to thank @Bad_T for creating the original one. You inspired me!

Posting this here more to give other people ideas. AI has advanced a lot and can really build useful software and little tools. So if you wished that some developer would build you a little tool that does <something>.. give AI a shot. This was coded with Claude Opus 4.6. 

I could have coded this myself, I know how to do that. But it would have taken me at least a week of hard work (I'm not a professional developer, just a hobbyist). I had this made, tested, running in.. 20 minutes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Though I've dabbled with Linux on older laptops etc., I'm unlikely to go down that route for MSFS. BadT's Linker is a *superb* utility - and  I applaud your efforts to recreate something like it for Linux. You never know - you might find other MSFS/Linux users out there.

So ... keep us all posted!!!

Should you want to share it one day, feel free to do so, it would be no prob for me. There are no royalties to pay, with AL everything is always free 😁😉🍺

i wish i had AI 4 years ago when working on AL, would have probably saved 100's of hours for better code 🤭

2 minutes ago, Bad_T said:

Should you want to share it one day, feel free to do so, it would be no prob for me. There are no royalties to pay, with AL everything is always free 😁😉🍺

i wish i had AI 4 years ago when working on AL, would have probably saved 100's of hours for better code 🤭

Thanks. If I share it, I will change the name and release MIT-licensed or a similar fully free license. Will credit you in the inspiration section. 

Brilliant!!!

I shall check for it's availabity once I finally decide to move to Linux!!!

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I'd love to see that app going public. However it's possible to get the original AddonsLinker running under Linux. At least the most important features are working as intended.

In Linux. do addos like teh Fenix, FSLabs and PMDG work ?

What about A2A and the Inibuilds ?