Soullioness@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoCan you host Lemmy on a windows computer?message-squaremessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up110arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareCan you host Lemmy on a windows computer?Soullioness@lemmy.world to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-text
I’m currently running an instance on Ubuntu but I’m wondering if it can be moved to my windows computer?
minus-squareSmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoOne 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.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoWsl 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.
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.