Even today, Postgres on Windows isn't a viable target for performance reasons. Postgres is one process per connection. Spawning processes on Windows is slow compared to Unix.

Building/running Postgres in Windows' Linux compatibility layer or within Docker is typically the better option, especially considering that every cloud vender offers Postgres running on a Linux OS, and it's best to have your dev environment match your deployment environment as closely as possible.

With Linux as your starting point, getting up and running with apt-get install mysql vs. apt-get install postgresql was trivially similar in 2010.