Hmm, well, I'm not a programmer, so I don't grasp a lot of this stuff, but it got me thinking about something else.

The setups I've seen so far for running Ekos on Windows is to use a Pi running Astroberry to access the INDI server, apparently via a network.

However since Windows 10 there is the ability to run Linux right in Windows, in what I think is a virtual machine (again I'm not savvy on this stuff):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9YxTXDiiFY&t=560s

So is it somehow possible to run the INDI server from the Linux OS running within Windows? I suppose INDI and libgphoto2 would need to be installed on the Linux OS, or are those already in Linux distros?

The idea is to run it all from one machine and not have the need to have a separate computer running INDI, connected through a network. From what I've seen so far, the present arrangement of running Ekos on Windows is completely impractical.

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