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Can you host Lemmy on a windows computer?
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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.