hakuna-m/wubiuefi
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fork of Wubi (https://launchpad.net/wubi) for UEFI support and for support of recent Ubuntu releases
11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2019-11-26 · latest 2026-10-19
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Wubi runs on Windows and installs Ubuntu into a file: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi This sort of thing used to be more common. My first exposure to Linux was before CD-Rs were ubiquitous so there was often no possibility of using…
comment by wat10000 · 2025-06-19 · in End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux -
It has a fork for UEFI systems but it's also not updated anymore. Though it still works more or less https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi And 22.04 was an LTS release so still under support
comment by haunter · 2024-05-01 · in How to install Linux from a Windows installer -
You can still do it, albeit not officially supported: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
comment by easton · 2023-05-21 · in WinLinux 2000 -
…use Ubuntu as a single file on your Windows drive There is a modern fork which more or less works https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
comment by haunter · 2023-05-21 · in WinLinux 2000 -
…it's all about Docker, VMs, or WSL nowadays yet Wubi covered a niche segment which was pefect. 0, https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
comment by unpopularopp · 2022-09-24 · in Linux on the laptop works so damn well that it’s boring -
A modern fork of Wubi with the support of UEFI exists and works perfectly fine https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
comment by haunter · 2022-03-17 · in Microsoft accidentally reveals that it is testing ads in Windows Explorer -
It still exists as a fork and works perfectly https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi/
comment by haunter · 2021-11-20 · in Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition -
Apparently Wubi is still maintained by the community these days: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
comment by auscompgeek · 2020-12-21 · in On the Graying of Gnome -
…have to rebuild it if you want to get rid of Linux. It's incompatible with Bitlocker though. [0]: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
comment by jedieaston · 2020-06-13 · in Install Linux from a running Windows system, without need for a live USB -
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Project to install Ubuntu in a file on a Windows partitionstory by jedieaston · 2019-11-26 · 0 comments