Windows or Linux, that is the question

1. powershell-phpmanager

   1 3 221 5.9 PowerShell

   A PowerShell module to install/update PHP, PHP extensions and Composer on Windows

   

   Installing PHP on Windows is a bit annoying. https://github.com/mlocati/powershell-phpmanager helps. Many PHP 8.1 extensions are still missing though. I guess you could just not install a local PHP version at all and exclusively work inside of containers, but again, annoying.

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. wslg

   2 145 10,644 4.9 C++

   Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

   

   Now, another thing to have in mind is that if you go the route to use Windows 11, you also have access to WSLg, which allows you to use Linux apps on Windows. It's still quite early so it may not be perfect, but if you ever find yourself in a situation where you want to run browser tests and you don't want to run it headless to see what's happening, then this is a potential way to do that.

4. PHP Brew

   3 2 5,469 3.8 Makefile

   Brew & manage PHP versions in pure PHP at HOME

   

   You can use something like this to install any version you want.

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