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[DOC] Expand windows support comments (ray-project#35715)
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On the Ray slack #general channel, a user asked about windows support which led to a discussion and these qualifications about using ray on windows.

Signed-off-by: NripeshN <nn2012@hw.ac.uk>
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Expand Up @@ -300,8 +300,22 @@ Multi-node clusters are untested. To get started with local Ray development:
Windows Support
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Windows support is currently in beta, and multi-node Ray clusters are untested.
Please submit any issues you encounter on
Windows support is in Beta. Ray supports running on Windows with the following caveats (only the first is
Ray-specific, the rest are true anywhere Windows is used):

* Multi-node Ray clusters are untested.

* Filenames are tricky on Windows and there still may be a few places where Ray
assumes UNIX filenames rather than Windows ones. This can be true in downstream
packages as well.

* Performance on Windows is known to be slower since opening files on Windows
is considerably slower than on other operating systems. This can affect logging.

* Windows does not have a copy-on-write forking model, so spinning up new
processes can require more memory.

Submit any issues you encounter to
`GitHub <https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues/>`_.

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