Nobody?

Have you tried generating an app key? php artisan key:generate

first make sure your php errors are displayed on the page, turn on error reporting to E_ALL

Did both of these. Still no dice.

This has happened to sometimes when the mysql server exceeds the server memory limit or when i'm doing too many queries at the same time. But it was fixed in L5.1

I have the version 5.1.19 so I doubt that's it. Thing is, I can't even access the page apparently. I'm mostly trying to find a debug log to find out why I can't access said page.

So is this an exclusive issue with Windows? Or did I miss some other step?

Should I give up trying to make it work on Windows 10 and switch to Ubuntu?

i guess you should. btw. you don't really need homestead. you can install xamp and set up a virtual host. or if you wanna go extreme try installing virtualbox and installing a vagrant box precise32 is my favorite.