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Quote: Fitchie
Great instruction set!
I'm going to share them with the astro club members.

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Thank you I think that it could be written a lot better, tho!

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Quote: Phil
Um, no. You buy a computer, Windows is already installed. Install the ASCOM platform (no terminal command-line voodoo needed), install your hardware drivers and astrophotography apps (no terminal command-line voodoo needed) connect your hardware, and go.

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If you follow that logic, you can also buy PCs with Ubuntu (or other distro) pre-installed and use the graphic interface to install (no terminal needed, as I stated in my previous post); you could also buy a mac, comes with an OS pre-installed and can run INDI
Also, what happens if you need to re-install windows for any reason? You buy a new pc every time?

That said, if you know how and what to search to use your equipment in windows, you're more than equipped to write 2-3 command lines.
You need to write a lot more than those lines in the search of your ASCOM platform, drivers and whatnot. It's just a different place: the search engine vs the terminal.

It all boils down to preferences, to each his own

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Quote: Wolfgang Reissenberger
Folks, patience, all OSes are created equal

If somebody is willing to port INDI to Windows, why not?

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I totally agree! The more platform indi support, the better, But I don't see official support on windows platform coming anytime soon, tho... If only WSL2 on windows supported USB devices directly it would have been perfect (but more tech savvy than installing Ubuntu from scratch).

I have both worlds, Linux and Win, but I use mostly the former for DSO and sometimes the latter for moon and planets. When I first used Windows for astrophotography I got frustrated, seeing how easy was installing indi/kstars on Linux.

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