If it doesn’t work, you can run a Ubuntu/Debian-based OS VM via VirtualBox or similar, and use Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development. I ran Linux Mint on VirtualBox on Windows after running into some problems with using the WSL instructions.
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