[alephx]

Hey I suggest you try installing it on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). I tried it just last week to do some hacking different from my usual C#/Visual Studio development and was pleasantly surprised it mostly worked out of the box. To render more nicely I had to install X Window for Windows (can't remember the exact name of the library) but it was pretty much a very good experience. Only limitation I can think is you should not access linux files from Windows, but the other way around has no problem.

Also (may be different from your use case), using tramp-mode has mostly eliminated the need to run the emacs inside the server, I run it locally and fetches files using ssh.