Installing FEniCSx on Windows 11

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@Daniel.Baker

Will running FEniCSx programs from a Linux simulator slow down calculations as compared to running them from a Linux operating system?

Not significantly

@Daniel.Baker

Will I need to reinstall them a second time using WSL2? If I have to access FEniCSx environments through WSL2, can I switch back and forth between python environments in Windows and those in WSL2?

You would have to reinstall Python and conda on the subsystem if you plan to use it there.

@Daniel.Baker

Does FEniCSx interact with the operating system only during installation or also when assembling and running programs?

FEniCSx will use the Python and C compiler in the subsystem when running.

@Daniel.Baker

I am used to using Spyder instead of Jupyter for python programming. Will I need to learn how to use Jupyter to be more efficient in FEniCSx?

No. Spyder, vscode, jupyter etc are IDEs. One should use whatever one is comfortable with.

@Daniel.Baker

I would prefer to do the installation without using Docker, primarily because I don’t want to have to learn about Docker if I can do this stuff using the tools I am familiar with, such as conda. Am I making my life much more difficult?

Not necessarily. The only thing docker can do that conda cannot is to use the nightly branches of dolfinx, ffcx, Basix and ufl, while conda is bound to the releases (0.5,0.6,0.7 etc).