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Updated note about Windows

There's a lot of old info around the interwebs.
Much stating nvm doesn't work in WSL.
Alfred Myers 6 years ago committed by Jordan Harband
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If you're running a system without prepackaged binary available, which means you're going to install nodejs or io.js from its source code, you need to make sure your system has a C++ compiler. For OS X, Xcode will work, for Debian/Ubuntu based GNU/Linux, the `build-essential` and `libssl-dev` packages work.
**Note:** `nvm` does not support Windows (see [#284](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/issues/284)). Two alternatives exist, which are neither supported nor developed by us:
**Note:** `nvm` does not support Windows (see [#284](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm/issues/284)), but may work in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) depending on the version of WSL. For Windows, two alternatives exist, which are neither supported nor developed by us:
- [nvm-windows](https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows)
- [nodist](https://github.com/marcelklehr/nodist)

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