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Add additional WSL disclaimers

Open thisisjoshford opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

In docs we advise Windows users to use WSL, but only in CLI & SDK articles. This should be mentioned in other prominent areas of our documentation and most notably the Quickstart section.

From a recent user study we found the following:

WSL is a blocker but the bigger disappointment arises from there not being any guidance in the docs for devs on windows to follow

One participant noted: "WSL is fine but it would be nice to know I need it before I start the process"

thisisjoshford avatar Apr 29 '24 23:04 thisisjoshford

@bucanero mentions during docs sync that we should create a "Getting started on NEAR using Windows" -> here's how to setup your env

thisisjoshford avatar May 20 '24 15:05 thisisjoshford

I will be addressing this and #1977 this week.

flmel avatar May 20 '24 16:05 flmel