You can run SingleStoreDB Self-Managed effectively on Windows, using the Windows Subsystem for Linux Version 2 (WSL 2). This is a development cluster running on a single host, and not suitable for production deployments. You can also run Singlestore Helios for free or spin up a SingleStore cluster on Linux, on Docker Desktop, on Kubernetes, or on Vagrant, all in roughly 10 minutes. SingleStore is a Linux program exclusively, so it doesn't run directly on other operating systems. Windows features WSL 2, which hosts a Linux kernel in a lightweight Virtual Machine (VM), allowing you to run any Linux program on Windows. To run SingleStore on WSL on Windows, you need a machine with at least four cores and 4GB of RAM. SingleStore provides free licenses that allow you to run a four-node cluster, with community support, for as long as you'd like. You can get a free license by registering at singlestore.com/self-managed-standard/. To install WSL 2 on Windows, you need to install all available Windows Updates and then enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux. After installing WSL 2, you can download the kernel update from https://wslstorestorage.blob.core.windows.net/wslblob/wsl_update_x64.msi and install it. You can then set up a SingleStore cluster on Ubuntu running on WSL 2 by downloading the memsql-deploy command-line tool, creating a variable for your license key, and running the `memsql-deploy` command. To verify that the cluster is running, you need to run the `wsl memsql-admin list-nodes` command. You can then launch SingleStore Studio and connect to the cluster using the root username and password.