I have Win7 32-bit Professional and I want to start learning to program and skin WordPress. My hosts will likely be LAMP, so I was going to run Win versions of those tools locally. Should I just get a linux VM, or will I be able to transfer what I do from the Win environment to the *nix hosting?
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I’d recommend setting up XAMPP. It will allow you to run an Apache/PHP/MySQL environment on Windows. You shouldn’t have any problem moving things over from your local XAMPP setup to a LAMP setup with your host.
