[giobox]

I'd go further and just point out the obvious - all DBs have incredibly well supported container run options in 2023, that mean you don't have to install the DB at all. I know of no DB that cannot be easily learned or deployed this way - even Microsoft SQLServer has a Linux image these days.

Since the advent of containers for running software, deploying any DB software is largely as easy as any other with a one line run statement, and if container image is cached you are getting a new DB in seconds.

If just starting out, running PG from a container is exactly how I would tell someone to learn today, and the process is largely identical whether they learn on windows, linux or a mac.

I haven't natively installed a DB since probably 2015 for any kind of local development use, its just a waste of your time more often than not now.

> https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres

[deathclassic]

Yeah docker is great and I've done the exact same as you for a few years. But, I don't think I even knew what a docker container was until 2018, and again, as an intern or college kid with a school/work windows workstation telling them to run it in a container is a non starter.