Part of the point of the new asp.net core is that it's slimmed down everywhere, not just linux (you're not getting jipped, they're just cutting off weight you don't need).
And to be fair, other cloud providers are responsible for implementing their own C# IaaS stack. To use heroku as an example, they implement their own stack and add languages that they support at their own pace (I think they only allowed JS/Python/PHP/Ruby the last time I used them).
And to be fair, other cloud providers are responsible for implementing their own C# IaaS stack. To use heroku as an example, they implement their own stack and add languages that they support at their own pace (I think they only allowed JS/Python/PHP/Ruby the last time I used them).