I've shipped .NET applications in organizations where adding Windows hosts never would have been contemplated, but adding a new application framework that ran on our standardized Linux environments was no big deal. Ops folks are often much warier about adding heterogeneous compute environments than they are about adding new application architectures, so an easier onboarding process for Linux shops experimenting with .NET could plausibly drive adoption.

I’m not sure but, it is nice to be able to install things without having to add additional repositories.