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Running command line ESPHome works in Windows

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**Describe the problem you have/What new integration you would like**
This is more of a documentation bug than a feature request, but the system auto-closed my bug due to the lack of a template (which in that case was rather annoying). Anyways...

I wanted to play with ESPHome on my Windows 10 machine before installing HASS on my RPi. The "Getting Started through Command Line" explicitly says no Windows, but everything works just fine under WSL, the Windows Linux Subsystem. Including the Dashboard. OTA flash works just fine, too. For local flashing, I simply used one of the many ESP flashing tools and the generated binary

Same installation steps, same everything, just under WSL. I think it would be good to add a "Windows 10" section, and remove the "(sorry, no windows)." from the Dashboard section

I also suggest adding, in the Installation section, the need to edit the PATH variable to include the ESPHome binary directory, otherwise things don't work properly (while searching I found a lot of people reporting bugs simply due to not having set PATH properly). It's critical for WSL

**Please describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:**
Needlessly limiting the audience. Since everything already works, it's a good idea to document it

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