Isn't MAMP/WAMP's purpose to emulate a Linux environment? Basically, a way of running a LAMP stack application on a Windows machine. I could be out of my leagu

Isn't MAMP/WAMP's purpose to emulate a Linux environment? Basically, a way of running a LAMP stack application on a Windows machine. I could be out of my league here and you may have other reasons, but you could just run VM's. Vagrant/Virtualbox takes all the pain away.