Wubi installer vs live CD

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 4 08:27:21 UTC 2012


On 4 July 2012 06:14, Nick Bikkal <29.whitesnake at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question about the quality of installation. I installed Ubuntu
> 12.04 using wubi installer, through Windows XP. Many people suggested using
> a live CD. Is there any difference installing it one way or another? I now
> have an option - here in Japan - to get a live CD to get a live CD by
> getting a magazine. I'm going to suppose it's a standard Ubuntu installation
> in which I can choose English in the first screen.

As suggested by others I think wubi is best only for a try-out install.

You can download the live cd image from
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop and then burn a CD or a USB
stick to boot from that.

Colin




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