So, about 5 or 6 Years ago i started to get into Drupal, and i quickly found Quickstart & DrupalPro.
They were absolutely great for me, All in one VM, ready to use, i could run it on my Windows or whatever host.

I was away from drupal for a few years, and try to come back.
But today my vm is missing newer Versions of PHP, Ubuntu-OS, Durpal 8 Compatibility, etc.

I am looking into new ways to get started from zero, and am surprised that i can't find a recommended toolset, or a list of options with comparison which is suited best for who.
I find Drupal VM, Lazydrubuntu, Aquia dev. desktop.
But none is an obvious fit for me like Quickstart / DrupalPro were, and it's hard to investigate what is.

Does a "official" guide for beginners exist?
Or does anyone have a suggestion for something that's close to Quickstart / DrupalPro?

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sirtet
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Location Switzerland
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Here's a documentation page about Options:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/develop/local-server-setup

i am still investiating the possibilities, still looking for advice.

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artsakenos CreditAttribution: artsakenos as a volunteer commented
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Hello Sirtet,
I prepared myself a new Drupalpro with quickstart features and all the new technologies few weeks ago, and I just posted a new issue about.
Please check: https://www.drupal.org/node/2855631.
You can find further information about the way I prepared the VM at this link.
Greetings.

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sirtet
Primary language German
Location Switzerland
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@artsakenos, nice.. will try that.

What i also found is
https://github.com/jcmartinez/drupalpro14
which delivers scripts to turn a 14.04 LTS Ubuntu into Drupalpro.
I think (but don't remember fully) i had tried that about a year ago, but had no success...
Just wanted to try it again, but i will try your work first.

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tito.brasolin CreditAttribution: tito.brasolin commented

@sirtet Juan C. Martinez recently merged my pull requests, if you want to try drupalpro14 again. It now installs PHP 7.1 from Ondrej Sury's PHP PPA repo, NetBeans IDE 8.2, Drush 7 and 8.

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mike stewart CreditAttribution: mike stewart commented

From the Maintainer of Drupalpro

I'd highly recommend lando.dev or another alternative ddev (though I find DDEV's use of homebrew/linuxbrew for linux very mac-centric and backwards. Suggesting minimal support/understanding of linux package management, that led to the creation of homebrew to begin with), for anyone that finds themselves here in search of a flexible development environment.

Both have many similar advantages of Drupalpro, smaller footprint, though will require a code editor, such as Geany, Atom, PHP Storm, MS VSCode, Sublime, Notepad++, brackets, Netbeans, vi, etc