Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:37:21 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies
<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Ubuntu and Puppy and possibly a few others have a magic way of
> installing inside Windows.  It avoids 1 of the layers between
> bare-metal and the OS because it avoids the virtual machine bit.  The
> Ubuntu magic way is called the "Wubi".  Again you are adding the
> worst of each OS and in addition the "drives" are really compressed
> files but it's fast and easy to install and many people keep using
> such things for years with no problems.  Obviously it's not made by
> Microsoft and so every once in a while someone has troubles with
> Windows trying to reject it but that is fairly rare.  We used to get
> about 1 question per month that was specifically about the Wubi and
> solved by moving to a dual-boot.   



G'day


Hang on a minute, wubi is dual-booting. The difference is that wubi
installs linux into a file on the windows drive, this 'saving' the
dangers involved in partitioning. With some difficulty you can set the
linux document directories outside of the linux file, so they can be
shared. But it is no-where near virtualisation.

Can't speak on Puppy's method


Regards



Keith Bainbridge
PO Box 324
BELMONT Vic 3216 Australia
 +61 (0)408 522 706

keith.bainbridge.3216@gmail.com 

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