# Lenses Community edition - Windows Compatibility?

**URL:** <https://ask.lenses.io/t/lenses-community-edition-windows-compatibility/310>\
**Category:** Lenses Community Edition\
**Created:** [December 16, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/lenses-community-edition-windows-compatibility/310 "2024-12-16T09:38:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Alan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@Alan](https://ask.lenses.io/u/Alan)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 9:38am UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/lenses-community-edition-windows-compatibility/310/1 "2024-12-16T09:38:39Z")

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I’m on my Windows machine and I just went to [https://lenses.io/apache-kafka-docker/](https://lenses.io/apache-kafka-docker/) to try out the new version of Lenses. I have Docker 27.3.1 installed, and I’ve translated the single-line command to PowerShell but the container always fails at start-up.

Is Lenses Community version compatible with Windows?

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**Author:** ![Adam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/ask.lenses.io/adam/32/69_2.png) [@Adam](https://ask.lenses.io/u/Adam)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://ask.lenses.io/t/lenses-community-edition-windows-compatibility/310/2 "2024-12-16T09:41:10Z")

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Lenses Community & Lenses Enterprise are not currently supported on Windows - if you want to run the containers locally, you’ll need to use WSL2.