Wubi Baby!

I was getting a little tired of using Ubuntu over VMWare because it was really slow and decided to install full fledged Ubuntu on my laptop and this thing called Wubi HAS to be the easiest way to install Ubuntu on Windows EVER!.

It runs like a windows installer.All it asked me was how much space I want to allocate for Linux and what is the user id and password I would like.period.Then it took about 30 mins to download the installation files.Next it asked me to reboot and by then it had added Ubuntu to the windows boot menu, I selected Ubuntu - another 15 mins for it to setup( It did not ask me for ONE SINGLE THING during this whole process).Then restarted again and that is it - Ubuntu installed!

It does not need you to partition your disk like the regular installation, instead it just creates a big files under windows and Linux treats that big file as the entire hard disk.And when I am want to uninstall - just need to uninstall from the regular Add/Remove Programs on Windows.Pretty neat huh?

oh and don't worry if you see it downloading amd64 installation for your Intel 64 Bit machine - apparently the amd64 installation works both on AMD and Intel,that is listed on the FAQs on Wubi site and I do have an Intel machine and the amd64 installation is working for me.