KeeperOfThePizza Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 is Wubi just a virtual machine? would there be any performance loss using wubi than just dual booting? i would assume since it is being run off windows and that would be a ntfs partition.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 22, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted November 22, 2008 To quote Wikipedia: It is not a virtual machine, but rather, it creates a stand-alone installation within a loopmounted device, also known as a disk image, like Topologilinux does. It is not a Linux distribution of its own, but rather an installer for Ubuntu. Real men install Linux to a dedicated partition though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted November 22, 2008 Share Posted November 22, 2008 I dual boot. I tried Wubi but it would only allow me to use up to 30 Gb of space. I have 1 terabyte total of storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeeperOfThePizza Posted November 22, 2008 Author Share Posted November 22, 2008 Would linux be faster? installing its own ext partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted November 22, 2008 Veteran Share Posted November 22, 2008 Wubi uses a filesystem image (think of as an .iso mounted with Daemon tools, or such in Windows) but boots up as a real Linux install. There might be a very slight latency when using high file I/O as it has one little extra step to do. But I don't know it would show up unless you used a benchmark app. Nothing to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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