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Should there be something that installs Linux to disk directly from Windows? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Would it be possible to lower barrier to entry that low?
To the point where installing some Linux distro would be as easy as installing a game on Steam or installing an application on a phone?
There is existing software for installing Linux from Windows.
For example, old WUBI for installing Ubuntu, and linixify-gui (fork of abandoned tunic) apparently does this as well.

So question is, should there be some effort put into making a modern installer of this kind? Something that even the person with the smoothest brain can use to get Linux on their PC?

Are there any existing projects that try to make this happen?

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[–] 1 point 10 months ago

I mean, Microsoft could supply an option to safely install Linux as a dual boot, alongside Windows, done by Windows, itself.

That is the only way I would trust such a tool, and even then, I might not.

There's so much closed source code involved in doing it that way - it feels like only Microsoft staff could have any hope to verify compatibility of all the necessary components.

Booting to a Live USB Linux first provides a clean-room - a known, publicly verified open source platform - to perform the installation from.

Such a clean room can be avhieved within Windows, but only by Microsoft engineers with full access to the entirety of Microsoft's source code.

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