Comments on: A Simple Feature of Ubuntu 8.04 That Could Be So Important

By: jonjo

jonjo — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:39:05 +0000

Yep, I was certainly tempted to try it with the new installation option. I have to say I’m extremely happy with the operating system, and whilst I am not getting rid of Vista. I have set Ubuntu as the default operating system and use it most of the time.

By: cdunn

cdunn — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:11:46 +0000

Also because the more widely used an operating system is, the greater the support of the OS is, and that includes useful tools, programs, and more. It’s like how there is a huge supply of Windows applications all over the place and less Mac and Linux apps (but of course there are still plenty).

By: damawa42

damawa42 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:04:18 +0000

KillaGeorge: because MS using friends keep asking for help…. I don’t want to / can’t help them if they are use Windoze.

By: KillaGeorge

KillaGeorge — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:00:27 +0000

I always wondered why linux users are always trying to convert microsoft users. Whats the deal with that? Who cares what other people use. I use linux and i’m happy with it. If my friends dont want to use it then no sweat of my back. Who cares?

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:23:19 +0000

John Bailey

I think BeOS is the distro you are thinking of. It installed in a file, like VMWare and was very simple.

By: InTheLoop

InTheLoop — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:51:41 +0000

CMD - True, but it is no where near as slow as a live CD I am sure. Also, it would not be a permanent install, but just a more familiar way for people to try it out.

By: CMD

CMD — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:39:09 +0000

It’s an interesting feature, but as far as i know, its slower than a proper Ubuntu install and less safe, especially if something happens to mess up windows.

By: John Bailey

John Bailey — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:25:06 +0000

Great idea. There was something like this years ago, but I can’t remember which distro offered it. With more recent computers, this should be much easier to do in a practical way.

I hope Canonical will be very thorough as far as safeguards are concerned. Last thing we need is to have Windows installs break because of a partial install or some glitch that corrupts something.