I try to use Linux for most things. Sometimes, though Windows is just better and easier. I spent weeks trying to get Playwright and Node.JS setup through Portainer and no matter what I did, it just would not work out. I would have Playwright and NodeJS setup, but it wasn’t the right version numbers to work together. At one point Portainer became disconnected with my Docker setup. Finally I gave up and decided to do it on Windows.
After weeks of working on getting just Playwright and NodeJS setup. After long hours of trying over and over. After about 10 minutes of setting it up and configuring it to how I needed, PlayWright with NodeJS was setup on Windows. Both of them were as simple to install as just double clicking it. Maybe if I had a GUI setup for it, Linux would be easier, but the last time I did that, it was just slow and clunky. I’m not even sure a GUI would have helped in this situation given the fact that it just wouldn’t pull the right version of Playwright, so I don’t think having a GUI would have affected that.
Most of the people I asked said that Linux is usually easier and they prefer to work on Linux than Windows. This most certainly was easier to setup on Windows than it was my server. I guess I should consider setting up a Windows server for things to run automatically on that as well. Do you run a Windows server with your Linux ones for cases like this?
