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#1 LiveBrianD

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:35 AM

I was wondering, has anyone used WUBI before? I tried it on my laptop, and found that it was extremely slow, I was getting error report messages, and when I tried to adjust the screen brightness it would go wwwaaayyyy too far, sometimes changing it by itself. When I booted into Windows, all was fine again. Any ideas?

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 08:51 AM

The X120? If so, nix wubi, and install directly. On those machines, Linux runs like a freaking champ.

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 11:10 AM

I actually have been unable to install Ubuntu with any of the previous versions of WUBI that were used. I just dual boot instead.

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 02:25 PM

waldojim, on 30 May 2012 - 08:51 AM, said:

The X120? If so, nix wubi, and install directly. On those machines, Linux runs like a freaking champ.

Yeah. Is there some driver issue it has with AMD hardware when running that way?

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 03:57 PM

LiveBrianD, on 30 May 2012 - 02:25 PM, said:

waldojim, on 30 May 2012 - 08:51 AM, said:

The X120? If so, nix wubi, and install directly. On those machines, Linux runs like a freaking champ.

Yeah. Is there some driver issue it has with AMD hardware when running that way?

Nope

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Posted 30 May 2012 - 04:18 PM

So what is it, a WUBI issue in general? It seems like it's running off a disk image that's on my Windows NTFS partition anyway; that's sure to hurt performance.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 12:47 AM

LiveBrianD, on 30 May 2012 - 04:18 PM, said:

So what is it, a WUBI issue in general? It seems like it's running off a disk image that's on my Windows NTFS partition anyway; that's sure to hurt performance.

It has been far too long since I have used WUBI. I will say that I never cared for it, as it never seemed to work well, and it was an Ubuntu thing. Your best bet - Linux Mint 13.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 08:06 AM

I've been messing with Mint a bit in a VM, and it's not a bad OS, though there are a few little things I don't like about the UI (Ubuntu seems to be better there).

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