I found this recommendation on one of Microsoft’s blogs:
We recommend you to use RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform() for platform
checks.
Reference: Announcing the Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core
IsOSPlatform()
takes an argument of types OSPlatform
which has three values by default: Windows
, Linux
and OSX
. It can be used as follow:
if (RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Linux))
{
// Do something
}
The API is part of .NET Standard 2.0, and therefore available in .NET Core 2.0 and .NET Framework 4.7.1.