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Should there be something that installs Linux to disk directly from Windows? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 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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[–] 14 points 6 months ago

Back in the days of CD Drives you just inserted the linux disk from a magazine or from a bestbuy that sold OpenSUSE and did a restart and it booted from CD ready to install, just like you'd install a game.

USB stick is just as simple but people don't know the process to make the stick or boot and hit the f key that gives them temp boot device options so it is a "harder" process

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