Running medley on Windows documentation

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You don’t need vnc in the “run locally in windows” scenario. For that matter, you don’t need docker either – if you can install WSL2. For a while last year we were trying docker because of some problems running on WSL1 (or Cygwin)…. But now that WSL2 is baked into Windows 11 I’d recommend using Docker Desktop as a option.

1. To try things out and learn about the environment, open an account at online.interlisp.org and run fullscreen. Zero install. Some details to be worked out
2. When we have SDL running, it will provide a light-weight install
3. If you can run WSL2 in windows 11, it comes with its own X server which is forwarded to the host windows automatically
4. If you have an older windows which can run Docker desktop but only WSL1 and can install an X server OR if you want to run locally (ruling out 1) but don’t trust Medley to not mess up your system, then “Docker” might be part of what you need to learn about.