So what’s odd is that on Windows 10 Pro and 11 Pro, I never run into this issue when installing DK/creating a site. I believe there’s something more happening with your Windows setup but I’m unsure what it could be.
In your DevKinsta/public folder, do you have WordPress installed under a subdirectory like sitename/wordpress ? It should just look like this:
And yes, the wp-config.php is set up to use devkinsta_db instead of localhost by default.
A clean install should just work out of the box, unless there are some permissions issues going on (among other things).
As for the performance, it’s a known issue with Docker/WSL2. Devkinsta will currently always be more performant if you use Docker Desktop with Hyper-V instead of WSL2. We’ve been researching ways to move the site files out of the Windows filesystem to get around this. There’s a similar issue with Mac: Website Interactivity is Slow - #65 by Kevin