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		JCattheATM 69 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source > XAMPP did not work out of the box with me on Windows (skill issue on my part, I know), so my preferred setup was to run a Ubuntu Server VM (LAMP stack) and then develop whatever I had on a Windows IDE. Why wouldn't you have just spent 5 minutes to get XAMPP working?

ivanmontillam 68 days ago [–]

It's really a skill issue on my part.

LAMP stack worked for me perfectly on Linux out of the box, whether Ubuntu Server or any RHEL-based distro (even with SELinux enabled!).

I spent some solid 8+ hours on that, saw it uneconomical and went the VM way.

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