• Digit
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Topic: w#!i (like wubi)

please dont hit me for suggesting this.  i know the idea of wubi rubs some folks up the wrong way... and even me who has a wubi install somewhere, get rubbed up the wrong way by it... buuuuut.....   wouldnt it be cool to have a crunchbang windows installer, like wubi?

is that a fairly easy thing to achieve?


[reminiscing] i remember the days before the corporatemachine behind ubuntu swallowed it up, when even unofficial ubuntu based distros (like "studio" for example) could be wubi installed. [/reminiscing]

/me hits himself for suggesting this.

Last edited by Digit (2009-06-30 22:12:45)

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

I think it would help people transition to #! easier...however...I wonder if #! is a bit less user friendly for windows n00bs (as I once was). To me, it seems like #! catered to me after I used ubuntu/xubuntu/4-months-of-distro-hopping. It was after all of that when i not only knew how to easily navigate around #!, but understood how it was different.

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

If it makes a release any more complicated then it should be sacrificed. Best way to try a distro is to stick it on a flash drive. If you can get it persistent then it's close to the real thing. I believe with Wubi you can't access the 'host' drive so the newbie can't access their songs etc - not an especially useful introduction.

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

I can't see this one getting off the ground. The whole way the iso is put together would have to change.

Apart from that I guess I'm just very against any wubi like solutions. On any distro.

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

I'm not a fan of the idea either. Especially because a wubi-like solution is used to transition windows users to linux.... and I dont think openbox and #! (while being user friendly), arent really for complete linux newbies.

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

dang.  ;p   ;D

thoughts that'd be about the responce i'd get from that suggestion.

might just hav t find a way to resize my windoze partition if i want to stick a native crunchbang on it ... that is, while keeping my xp install to appease my windows using gamer friends.


.... soon... soon they will all succumb to the ways of open source.  wink

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

If you need to keep windows around, its better to have it on a separate partition, and not through wubi which slows things down.

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

You know the fact of the matter is that Wubi runs poorly as is for a lot of people. If Ubuntu hasn't managed to get things right, then how on earth would anyone on the #! end of things. It's too troublesome.

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

I don't think there is anything wrong with wubi per se, but the fact of the matter is that the LiveCD works great and with unetbootin it's trivial to install to a USB stick (albeit a live envornment still).

But that's not to say that if the GP truly sees a need and wants to step up with the leg work, then more power to him/her and the community.

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

tokalon wrote:

I don't think there is anything wrong with wubi per se, but the fact of the matter is that the LiveCD works great and with unetbootin it's trivial to install to a USB stick (albeit a live envornment still).

and then with a second usb stick, seems there's no problems installing properly to it.

...a wubi style method would just have been an extra luxury.

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Re: w#!i (like wubi)

I dont think a wubi style install is a bad idea,,,It would definitly be a way to get the not so technical people to try out CB.
Plus i dont think openbox is all that hard to use coming from a windows system.

Most people who use computers pretty much surf ,check emails and watch youtube videos,,So i guess my point is,,CB doesnt need to be touched out of the box for the average joe who just wants to get an easy taste for a linux distro.

Im not sure about how the iso build is any different,,But id asume it would have to be.