Well, I might try my luck with convincing my teachers to let us use avalonia but I’m not sure it will oucome to anything good. At this point I might as well use a VM for this, as I already had a VM for SolidWorks set up.

that could be a solution indeed, but I’m not sure the latest working version (2010) would have all the features that would fit my needs, see WIneHQ’s rating history for Visual Studio

well, mono in itself seems to work and I have successfully built the hello world winforms program using mono, but the monodevelop IDE won’t seem to work at all, which would make coding harder than it should be.
I’ve also seen things online saying that monodevelop is half dead, so I don’t have much hope about this

none of that; it’s a school project which imposed winforms, else I’d have found some thing that would have worked for my linux

Ah! thank you for pointing that out !