I’m currently running an instance on Ubuntu but I’m wondering if it can be moved to my windows computer?

  • Andi@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • EddyBot@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      something to keep in mind is that both WSL2 and Linux container on Docker Windows use virtual machines
      these come with a drawback of additional overhead or cheaper hosted VPS don’t allow to nest virtual machines inside their cheap ones

  • Veraticus@lib.lgbtEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Maybe but it doesn’t seem like a terribly good idea. All prior art for Lemmy, and most serious server stuff on the Internet, is on Linux. It would be a lot of effort and would result in a worse solution than the tools that already exist.

  • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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!

    • Soullioness@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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…

      • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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 :)