[ubuntu-studio-devel] Wubi - nuke it from orbit

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

There's enough buggy UEFI setups out there that I advise people to never buy
new anymore without searching the exact model they plan to buy online along 
with the word "Ubuntu" and/or "Linux" to see what pops up. Long has this been
so for printers and wireless devices, not it's also true for laptops, premade desktops
and motherboards. You have to watch for things like the Lenovo firmware that
whitelists only RHEL and Windows (but any boot executable with that name will
work) or that Surface RT total locked paperweight crap.

If Wubi will run over Windows 8 or 10, that will do the job Crouton does for 
chromebook owners: a quick changeroot into a different OS, in fact easier 
than on Chromebooks. There are three ways to put Linux on those, two that
I know for sure to work: the Crouton changeroot into LInux from ChromeOS,
replacing ChromeOS and booting from "developer mode" every time, or 
replacing the firmware with upstream Coreboot, which all Chromebooks 
support/

On 8/21/2015 at 9:14 PM, "Mike Holstein" <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>On Thursday, August 20, 2015, C. F. Howlett 
><cfhowlett at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As I understand it, wubi has not been supported, developed or 
>upgraded for
>> YEARS.  Moreover, wubi is known to conflict with Ubuntu 13.XX 
>and newer.
>> So WHY is wubi not only present in the Ubuntu ecosystem, but 
>actually
>> packaged with Ubuntu .iso's?
>>
>> For the love of kittens, puppies and all that is good, please!  
>Delete,
>> remove, de-install and purge wubi from Ubuntu flavors!  Confused 
>and
>> frustrated users will thank you.
>>
>> C. F. Howlett
>
>
>
>I haven't used it in years. But that used to work well, for me. 
>Then it bit
>me one time. Still, I could imagine, with recent UEFI 
>implementations, This
>might be an easy way for folks to get and installation up and 
>working. Not
>that we have to address facilitating a way around problematic 
>hardware,
>like that. I have not secured a Windows 10 installation, yet. I 
>plan to,
>and I could check will be, and see if it's working from there, if 
>there's
>interest in keeping it around. It's always available, even if we 
>don't ship
>it on the ISO.
>
>
>
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