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Steam Ate Microsoft's Lunch On PC, It's About To Do The Same On Handhelds (kotaku.com)

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[–] DannyBoy 15 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Does anybody remember Wubi? It was Linux that was installed on Windows just like a regular program. Gave you an option to choose Linux on boot. It didn't make any partitions, and if you didn't want it anymore? Then you'd go to Windows and uninstall like any other program. It had a few limitations but was an interesting concept.

[–] fruitycoder 3 points 13 hours ago

Of course! It's what got me started!

I love it as a concept, and frankly a dual boot installer (create partitions) that worked from Windows would be pretty useful I think. USB/disk installs add complexity that just hurt the chances.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I remember Wubi! That was 20-ish years ago now. It kind of got made irrelevant by VM's I guess. I wonder if it's still around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

VMs are still slow unless you're talking linux on linux with KVM

Wubi was great because you got native speed to test Linux with, which was probably better than Windows for at least most versions of Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There's WSL now in Windows 11 - a built-in, pretty performant instance of Linux. The recent versions run a proper Linux kernel I believe (the older ones were more of a compatibility layer over Windows APIs). I'm not sure what the limitations of WSL are. But there is already some kind of Linux in Windows. I use it for the odd utility and to avoid having to learn PowerShell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

There is. Wubi was more about giving 14 year old me the confidence to try out an entirely different os.