Wubi vs Dual Booting


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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..

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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.

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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.

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