Do we know why they stopped?
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NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 day agoUbuntu used to offer a tool that was only a bit more involves than that
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
palordrolap@fedia.io 1 day ago
I'm going to guess that users lost their files and complained, so Canonical stopped trying to make it easy enough for those users to try.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s fair.
adarza@piefed.ca 22 hours ago
probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway.
adarza@piefed.ca 1 day ago
the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked.
endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work–with some caveats: it’s slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that’s in development will change pretty much everything ‘under the hood’ that makes endless what it is, as they’re moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself.
TheViking@nord.pub 1 day ago
Which distro is that ??
adarza@piefed.ca 23 hours ago
is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation.
https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system
my ‘monitor’ (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that’s the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows ‘installer’.
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