Hi, I'm just working through the Quickstart page. https://kafka.apache.org/quickstart As I'm working on Windows, I use MinGW to emulate Linux. 1) On MinGW, I get this error: me@computer MINGW64 /c/java/kafka_2.12 $ bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --topic test log4j:ERROR Could not read configuration file from URL [file:/c/java/kafka_2.12/bin/../config/tools-log4j.properties]. java.io.FileNotFoundException: \c\java\kafka_2.12\bin\..\config\tools-log4j.properties (The system cannot find the path specified) Other commands like zookeeper-server-start.sh or kafka-server-start.sh work without errors on MinGW. 2) The Quickstart is Linux only, all commands are Linux, e.g. bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh. I'm mistyping all the time, and I guess, other folks are pretty much like me. How about providing either a) a separate page for Windows with the appropriate commands like \bin\windows\whatever.bat ... b) adding buttons like [I use Windows] and [I use Linux], and the page changes the OS specific commands.
3) The Quickstart shows, how to setup a cluster. I found this configuration property very confusing: config/server-1.properties: listeners=PLAINTEXT://:9093 PLAINTEXT? Really? Why PLAINTEXT? I think, this is worthy of some documentation or should be replaced by the hostname / ip to avoid confusion. Regards, Bernhard