Full install vs wubi...

Johnneylee Rollins johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com
Mon Jan 11 05:55:33 UTC 2010


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM,  <mdovell at comcast.net> wrote:
> I use Ubuntu solely on my laptop for which I have no issues with. However on
> my desktop I've largely kept windows mostly due to the QQ program but I
> think I might try to run that in wine. I've had issues with the installation
> because I've burned countless cdroms and most of them had issues in some
> way.
>
> If I were to buy a linux magazine that has a cd of ubuntu and install it
> from that would I have better performance than under wubi?
>
> I recently had a problem with a kernel upgrade. It got to a OS selection
> screen and selecting ubuntu stated "unknown error" and put me in the command
> line. I had to reinstall Ubuntu which wasn't bad...I was just wondering what
> would be the advantages of doing a full version rather than wubi. thanks

I think you should look into this:
http://wubi-installer.org/faq.php#requirements
That might explain it better than anyone else can.

~SpaceGhost




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