Running Ubuntu on Windows with Wubi

It will be slower installed this way ..manual install and dual boot via grub would be better..

The Wubi install does setup a boot loader and provides you with a dual-boot environment. You install Ubuntu from Windows, but you don't run Ubuntu under Windows...if that makes sense. How would that be slower than a manual install?

Because it is running on a virtual disk in windows using windows as a "host"and not an actual partition so the read write access speeds are not as fast as on a real partition..

Plus it does not take kindly to hard reboots and or power failures..either might result in neither OS being available ..and as it is on a virtual disk it is still affected by the fragmentation level of the windows system ( and the slowness that comes with badly fragged disks under windows ) .. very frustrating when you are looking for speed , especially as in a manual installation linux is normally faster than windows on the same hardware ..

you could always nlite your xp ..that would make it fast ..depends what you need to have working in xp as to what you'd leave in..;)

ahhh. I thought Wubi was just an installation tool. I didn't realize all the tricks it was using to exist under Windows that way. Apparently you can move the install to its own partition after you have Ubuntu setup.

I have an old laptop for which I did the same, dual boot via grub. And I didn't realize you could move the install to a partition afterward. I'll be curious to see how that goes for you.

I liked the Wubi install for its simplicity. It's a no-brainer to get Ubuntu up and running on your Windows machine. I have not had the time or motivation yet to move it to its own partition.