You don't have to fix anything, I was just curious. Totally fine to follow all your steps - since they are total correct - to start working with and explore.
[tl;dr]
The idea is that, for PHP you can have a container, what has everything what you need for your project and encapsulate it, so it's easy to move, replace or destroy, without have the trouble of cleanup.
Usually people using VirtualBox, Vagrant or Docker for it. Both virtualization on different level. In VirtualBox you could have a fully functional - even desktop based - linux, without any multiboot fuzz, with vagrant you could have a headless box what easy to use from IntelliJ software (e.g.: from PHPStorm) and docker is for having a super lightweight container top on your own shell.
There are plenty of good article, worth to read them and discover that part of the world also.
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Not really.. How can I fix it now? Should I reset my windows 10? Thanks!
You don't have to fix anything, I was just curious. Totally fine to follow all your steps - since they are total correct - to start working with and explore.
[tl;dr]
The idea is that, for PHP you can have a container, what has everything what you need for your project and encapsulate it, so it's easy to move, replace or destroy, without have the trouble of cleanup.
Usually people using VirtualBox, Vagrant or Docker for it. Both virtualization on different level. In VirtualBox you could have a fully functional - even desktop based - linux, without any multiboot fuzz, with vagrant you could have a headless box what easy to use from IntelliJ software (e.g.: from PHPStorm) and docker is for having a super lightweight container top on your own shell.
There are plenty of good article, worth to read them and discover that part of the world also.
[/tl;dr]
I like Docker personally.. I think Windows 10 with Visual Studio is going in the same direction as long as you want to deploy your app on azure.
I think I must explore containers and virtualisation.