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Windows: Using WSL vs. Docker vs. `uv`

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## Problem

In tutorials and walkthroughs, taking special care about Windows adds drag and screen space, specifically because its native shell is PowerShell, but also because of other obstacles.

- GH-325
- GH-326

## Pitch

I wonder if we should just recommend to use WSL today, for both "Windows-native"- **and** "Docker"-use, which is available since Windows 10?

- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
- https://docs.docker.com/desktop/features/wsl/

## Benefits

In the context of documentation authoring, this would have the general tremenduous benefit that all tutorials could foremost rely on `bash`, and of course can also earn all the other benefits of a Linux operating system, which is usually Ubuntu on standard WSL, so installing auxiliary software is just one `apt install -y` away.

/cc @michaelkremmel, @surister, @kneth, @matriv

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