08-25-2011, 08:39 AM
(06-02-2010, 01:29 PM)Psycho Wrote: If you don't have to use Wubi, don't use it. If you can't burn the image to a disc, just dd it on your USB drive or something.
I agree with Psycho. I hate using Wubi when I install Ubuntu for anyone, just look at what Elektrisk posted:
Compared with a regular installation, a Wubi installation faces some limitations. Hibernation is not supported and the filesystem is more vulnerable to hard reboots. Also, if the Windows drive is unmounted uncleanly (Windows crash, power failure, etc), Ubuntu will not be able to mount the Windows drive and boot until Windows has successfully booted and shut down. If the Windows system cannot be booted after the crash, the user also cannot boot Ubuntu.
Performance related to hard-disk access is also slightly slower, more so if the disk image file is fragmented, on a Wubi install compared to a normal one.