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So I decided that I wanted to start using SearX. But I have a Windows laptop. Not the best for privacy, but it runs most of the games and software that I need/want in my day-to-day life. I wanted SearX because I feel like a number of search engines are starting to go biased fast, not just Bing or Google. While morally speaking, down-ranking Russian propaganda may be fine, deciding what results do or don't get preferential treatment is a slippery slope that I don't much care for. Regardless of my reasoning, I wanted more granular control of my searches, and a somewhat greater degree of privacy, so I set my sights on SearX.
And so I did some searching, and found that SearX isn't officially supported on Windows. Not to be deterred, I did another quick search and found that with pip and/or docker, you should be able to install SearX straightforwardly on Windows. After trying this for a bit, I realized that uvloop, a (questionably optional dependency of SearX) is not supported on Windows. I tried a couple things to get it to work, but they didn't end up working for me either through user error, ignorance, or plain old not working.