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

On 07/25/2012 08:10 AM, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> 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
With the dual booting in separate partitions, like I use for 
Ubuntu/Vista on my laptop, I can share the files from Windows partition 
to the Linux one, but not the other way around.  So if you take and keep 
all your data files on the Windows partition, you still can use them, 
like you do with a second hard drive, on your Linux install.  That is 
what I do, mostly, for that dual booting system.  That saves hard drive 
space.

The only time I used Puppy was on a system that was really slow. That 
system is now in my parts box.  I really do not know much about what 
Puppy is like now.

As for using Linux inside a Windows partition via the WUBI option, I 
would not go that way.  IT may work for people to really get into Linux 
without doing the partitioning, but is still based in the Windows 
environment with all its problems with defragging and such. I say try a 
Live CD or DVD and then go the dual booting with the separate 
partitioning option.




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