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Is there some way to use this on Windows / MinGW shells?

  $ curl https://clickhouse.com/ | sh
    % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100  2473    0  2473    0     0   2063      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--  2078
  Operating system 'MINGW64_NT-10.0-18362' / architecture 'x86_64' is unsupported.

I do not like Windows, I am forced to use it where I am right now.

It would be great if software producers would finally accept the reality that there are at least three mainstream operating systems, Windows, OSX, Linux, that should be supported.

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On windows, linux is supported via wsl2 - and is generally a better nix/posix than mingw/cygwin etc.

I'm not saying most software should just not support windows - but in this case you should sort of already have what you ask for?

This. My laptop runs Windows (for non-programming reasons). It would feel like a prison except that WSL is really good--far more convenient than messing around with MacOS workarounds like brew. If you can't run Linux directly, Windows is the way to go.

What happens if you download the install script and edit it?

I don't have a windows machine at hand right now so I can't check myself.

Something like this:

    curl https://clickhouse.com/ --output install.sh

Then open install.sh with your favorite text editor, and replace the first 58 lines with code setting the `OS`, `ARCH` and `DIR` variables as suitable (you might get away with OS=`linux` if the Windows Subsystem for Linux is installed?).

Looks like no Windows support for the whole clickhose product family!

This is actually great as it gives me one more reason to ask for a real operating system! Now with clickhouse-local only available on Linux (or OSX) I have a very good point to make, as everybody loves data tools like these! Finally!

Follow up blog post to be done: "How clickhouse-local helped me to finally introduce Linux as a client OS in our working group."

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