I’m currently running an instance on Ubuntu but I’m wondering if it can be moved to my windows computer?
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Wouldn’t recommend running production services on windows.
Wouldn’t recommend running
production services onwindows.Windows 10 LTSC (for me) generally has uptime that is the equivalent of any Linux box. I’ve been using it to host Plex for several years - before hardware transcoding support in Linuxv was really up to snuff.
LTSC is what Windows should be. It’s a shame Microsoft doesn’t make it available (legally) to normal consumers.
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.
There are lots of docker deployment examples, and no reason it shouldn’t run in docker on windows. It supports Ubuntu containers. https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wsl/
One thing to note with Docker on Windows is that it will be running the Linux subsystem on top of the Windows stuff when you run Docker, so there will be a performance hit to do that.
It will work, but not necessarily as well as you would like.
Wsl isn’t actually slower, it uses a kernel personality mode thing that basically means Linux runs as a first class process.
The performance hit doesn’t show up for most stuff, but iirc it does show up for some heavy io, networking and some synchronization.
Still, highly not recommended.
Everyone else here is saying it’s not recommended. I’d agree with that. But I’m super curious to hear whether we can, not whether we should! So, OP: I say give it a go and report back what problems you run in to!
I leaned no one on Lemmy are as helpful as they seem. Nor as nice… I gave up on trying to run my own instance… My life is too busy and hard to find time for this anyway…
Oh, I’m sorry that you found that :( Hopefully we can all help each other more :) If you have more time in the future I’m interested to hear how you go setting up Lemmy on Windows :)
