[CoLoCo] Wubi 7.10 Alpha Installs Gutsy

[David Overcash]

Jim,
While I feel very similarly to you on this matter...  I think it speaks
volumes for Linux programmers to cater to ANY user's need so that literally
anyone can feel free to try (and hopefully love) linux.  I just wish that a
WUBI install could have a desktop icon that would install and over-write
windows (and transfer all of their files like the current installer does) so
that the transition could be seamless from windows->wubi->ubuntu just as one
can go windows->ubuntu.

-David

On Jan 5, 2008 11:17 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2008 2:43 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Also, when the next Ubuntu is released Wubi will be on the Live CD as
> > the official installer.
> >
>
> I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, it's nice that
> windows users can more easily try out an installed version of Ubuntu
> without the potential risk of repartitioning and through a simple and
> familiar process (it's just a .exe, right?). However, on the downside,
> this sends the message that windows is the default platform and even
> Linux itself caters to windows users. I think the default install
> should OVERWRITE windows but start with a really big warning that it
> is going to so this and to back up. Or better yet, it should overwrite
> windows but pull in all your files.
>
> Anyway, just the $.02 of a Linux bigot.
> -jim
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