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 Please consider which installation method you prefer. Cloud Installation requires fewer steps and is platform agnostic, but you may value working from your terminal, for familiarity, more.
 
 - [Standard Installation](#Standard-Installation)
+- [Windows Installation](#windows-installation)
 - [Cloud Installation](#Cloud-Installation)
 
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+### Windows Installation
+We recommend you either work in a virtual environment, or on a dual booted system to avoid dependencies issues and also Unix system works smoother with Ruby and Rails. This will not only benefit you now for Mapknitter, but also in future while working on other Ruby projects, a Linux or Mac OS will make your life easier.
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+1. [Dual Booting](https://www.tecmint.com/install-ubuntu-alongside-with-windows-dual-boot/amp/), [option2](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1031993/how-to-install-ubuntu-18-04-alongside-windows-10), [video guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNeJvujdB-0&fbclid=IwAR0APhs89jlNR_ENKbSwrp6TI6P-wxlx-a0My9XBvPNAfwtADZaAXqcKtP4)
+2. [Setting up a linux virtual env](https://itsfoss.com/install-linux-in-virtualbox/)
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 ## Logging in when running locally
 
 Because MapKnitter uses a remote OpenID login system that depends on PublicLab.org, it can be hard to log in when running it locally. To get around this, we've created a local login route that requires no password: