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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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  1. There's WUBI: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
    comment by e12e · 2026-10-19 · in Linux 7.3
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. You can still do it, albeit not officially supported: https://github.com/hakuna-m/wubiuefi
    comment by easton · 2023-05-21 · in WinLinux 2000
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. …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