Ubuntu Windows Installer

[fjf314]

For anyone who has ever wanted to try Ubuntu, but didn't want to bother messing around with parititions, setting their system to dual-boot, etc. you finally can. A couple of Ubuntu fanatics out there have put together a Windows installer for Ubuntu that you can find here (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/install.exe/Prototype).

I ran the installer and am in the process of downloading Ubuntu as I type this. the installer sets up everything through Windows, then sets the system to dual-boot, giving you the option to pick which system you want to run when you turn on your machine (something you can obviously change later.) If you decide you don't want to use Ubuntu, it's actually added as a program under Add/Remove Programs in XP, so you can always uninstall it and reclaim your used HDD space pretty easily if you don't like it. I just figured this might be handy for anyone else who wanted to check out the OS.

[0746]

Good idea and not. Newbies should stay out of linux no matter how user friendly the distro is. Next thing you'll notice is them complaining about how linux is unstable and a waste of time because they pressed ctrl alt f4 by mistake and had to restart pc to get out of it.

[UltraDavid]

Cool, thanks for the heads up. I've been thinking about checking out Linux for a while, and I was looking at Ubuntu already. Good timing hehe.

[Taskmaster]

This might be a stupid question, but I'm only familiar with Apple and Windows apps. I assume you can access "my documents " from Ubuntu?

And would I have to download all sorts of programs for it or are the windows versions useable (like in flyakite)

[jugoso]

0746 may be right on this.

Ugly Facts:
Linux won't play your games.
It ain't easy to get videos running, even less playing original DVDs (as is "illegal" as there aren't legal drivers)
If you have ATI, forget about running XGL or AIGLX

Why anyone would like linux?
It's free
For almost everything, there is a free linux version of it (players, coders, editors, compilers...)
There's no payed home software. Only special ones such as
You don't have to pay to create pdf's
It has XGL/AIGLX

There's more pro's and con's but these are the main ones