Soullioness@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 years agoCan you host Lemmy on a windows computer?message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up13arrow-down1message-squareCan you host Lemmy on a windows computer?Soullioness@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 years agomessage-square12fedilinkfile-text
I’m currently running an instance on Ubuntu but I’m wondering if it can be moved to my windows computer?
minus-squareAndi@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 years agoYou have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which will allow you to run Ubuntu within Windows. Or you have Docker for Windows which also utilises WSL in a similar manner. So yes, although not a native Windows exe, it’s perfectly possible.
You have Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which will allow you to run Ubuntu within Windows.
Or you have Docker for Windows which also utilises WSL in a similar manner.
So yes, although not a native Windows exe, it’s perfectly possible.
And definitely use WSL2.