On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:09:35PM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 8 April 2013 18:01, bcbc bcbc <openb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's hard to make an informed decision without knowing the usage stats of > > Wubi. If it's quite low then I expect there'd be little impact, but if it's > > popular then it's taking a low-risk installation method away from users who > > might otherwise not have tried Ubuntu. Does Canonical have any statistics on > > this? > > > > The point that it's not low-risk any more. It can cause data-loss on > windows 8 side when it's hibernated.
I can't find the original article right now, but I recently read a gaming blog where some random journalist had attempted to install Steam inside of a Wubi Ubuntu installation. His readers mercilessly flamed him as being essentially a total idiot (because everybody "just knows" that Wubi is *incredibly* terrible), and so he was forced to try it again without Wubi. Had he not been a journalist, he would have simply given up on Wubi and written Ubuntu off as an unstable product. The unfortunate reality is that if Wubi is your first experience with Ubuntu, you're likely to come to the conclusion that Ubuntu is an unstable mess, when really it's the fact that Windows is an unstable base underneath your Ubuntu that is causing the problems (but you don't know that). Wubi is basically a disaster and is generating a lot of negative associations with Ubuntu in novice's minds. Here's an alternate page where "Don't use Wubi" is given as the number one piece of advice for getting Steam to run on Ubuntu: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3079968 In short, Wubi needs to die a quick and painless death so we can get on with providing positive experiences to new users of Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
