Someone who has never known anything but Windoze and who wants to try (or has been talked into trying) Linux wants to do so with an absolute guarantee that their precious Windoze installation won't be hurt or permanently affected. If Ubuntu is the trial distro, that means either a live CD or Wubi. As anyone who has used a live CD for any length of time knows, it's a royal pain. The boot is slow, it runs slowly, if you want to save anything, you've got to be careful to save it to a flash drive, and aside from what you put on a flash drive, everything is new each time you boot. Wubi isn't perfect, but it has the live CD beat all hollow for anything more than a short term look-see. Best of all, if you decide to either do a "real" install or--heaven forbid--dump it, a simple uninstall from the Windoze control panel gets rid of it. Live CD and Wubi are for those dipping a toe into the Linux water, but neither is a good solution for more-or-less permanent use. So what's all the fuss? -mj- Ryan Rix wrote: Or, you know, a dual bootable setup is deathly easy with the ubuntu installer and as was pointed out, much safer... |
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