Comments on: From Windows to Ubuntu Linux

By: Me

Me — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:06:37 +0000

Wow… totally found this by mistake, and it’s old, but I’ll post anyway.

Why not have a “one size fits all” linux? Because the great thing about linux is that there isn’t, and you seem to be missing the point. Standards across different distros have evolved and distros are quite compatible with each other, so I don’t know what the big problem is with the variety. The last thing I want to see is for the linux communities to decide they want to take from me the immense power of choice I have by deciding to enter the world of linux-users. The word “free” describes way more important freedoms than the freedom to obtain without paying money. I have choice to use what’s mine however I want with linux because of the number of distros, and the kind of shift you’re advocating is a terrible idea, but will never happen anyway.

By: Re@PeR

Re@PeR — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:54:38 +0000

I’m a Gentoo fan, Ubuntu doesn’t do it for me, but then again, Linux is all about choice, if you’re not happy with a distro, you have dozens of other to choose from or build your own if you have the time and money. (where time = money)

By: rabi

rabi — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:46:34 +0000

id lyk 2 no hw 2 create a second partition n make a dual boot. im running windows xp media centre edition and i hav sum programs instaled. i dnt wana loose da windows OS or any of da programs bt i wana run ubuntu 2 on da same P.C. i wana hav da same programs i instaled in xp 2 without havin 2 re instal dem again 4 ubuntu. iz dat possible ?
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Hay, try this:
# Wubi, Install Ubuntu the easy way – No need to change your hard drive partitions either, install Ubuntu in windows as a program (into a folder). Then when you reboot, it’s an option to boot into Ubuntu. No need for changing partition, but you’ll still have dual-boot system!
Here: wubi-installer.org

Try it!

You can run most of your windows programs from linux if you have something called “wine” installed in Linux Ubuntu!

By: Dominique

Dominique — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:40:08 +0000

OK!
The brick wall for me has always been that we’re HIGHLY dependant on Windows, no matter what. Ubuntu has been the only *nix OS that’s actually impressed me, mostly because the developers don’t take a screw-microsoft stance when creating and enhancing Ubuntu, rather, they have tended to embrace some of the features ad things that Windows users are familiar with, the simplicity of it all.

So ye I played with Ubuntu quite alot, but always needed to get back to windows to do my everyday things.

Dunno where the hell I’ve been, coz I never heard of Wubi until I read your post, and I like what I’m seeing. I’m a VMware addict, but virtualisation tends to kill the host if you’re not running around with a notebook slash ‘mini-beast’. I’ve never been much of a dual-boot fan, nor partitioning…(not in themanual sense anyways, we tend to break things quite easily in those areas)

I’ll take a look at Wubi, and who knows, maybe I’ll have Ubuntu running again soon

Thanks mate, very informative indeed.