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I'm a Windows guy since forever and I recently got into selfhosting. So far its a blast! Are posts about that welcome here?

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[–] Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Most self-hosted solutions come as containers, containers are Linux only and on Windows they run under the WSL VM, so eventually (if you are not doing full installs) you are still using Linux