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

  • Andi@feddit.uk
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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.de
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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.lgbt
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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.

  • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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    1 year ago

    I believe it can be, but what I’ve found in general with respect to my fediverse journey is that pretty much everything is built for Linux. If you want to use windows, you’ll likely have to blaze a trail for yourself.

    I had one windows PC in my server farm initially, but installed Linux after I realized most things I wanted to run really wanted me to be running Linux.

    • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.

  • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
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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.worldOP
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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.org
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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 :)