Soullioness to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-21 year agoCan you host Lemmy on a windows computer?message-square15fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up17arrow-down1message-squareCan you host Lemmy on a windows computer?Soullioness to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-21 year agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-text
I’m currently running an instance on Ubuntu but I’m wondering if it can be moved to my windows computer?
minus-squareAndilinkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year 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.
minus-square@EddyBot@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agosomething 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
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.
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
And definitely use WSL2.