@Noobs-R-Us: Picture a typical Linux user, taking note of the Cheetos stained fingers, Mountain-Dew high, Monty Python quotes and fervent reading of D&D manuals and Battlestar fanfic.

Is it any wonder why Linux apps are named things like WUBI, the GIMP, Thoggen, GNOME, Ekiga, Wizpy, Jokosher, etc?

Topcat

@strider_mt2k: It is a good time. They've improved the hardware support tremendously although the GL Desktop is giving me some static.

OMG! Ponies!

I think the wubi site is having an issue. Only 34 hours too go!!!

Tex1961

Hmmm, I haven't tried my latest secondary computer out with Ubuntu.
Maybe this is a good time!

strider_mt2k

I've been pretty satisfied with the pre-release so far on my VM. Can't wait to test this one out tonight.

Kaiser-Machead

@Leonard Nimrod: Isn't that Wbui then? Why Uganda Bickers Intensely?

sisedi

@HeartBurnKid: Wubi = Windows-based UBuntu Installer

Leonard Nimrod

Our provider's connection took a huge steamy dump this morning and we're on a backup line... there's no way that with the site being hammered and my connection being a piece of crap I will have this today... hopefully the weekend... dammit!

xint

I'm downloading it. 66% done from the website. It's been 3 hours and DL rate is declining slowly. It's going to be a long 700mb.

innout3x3

[wubi-installer.org]
WUBI!

xint

@Noobs-R-Us: It's not baby talk, it's African talk.

Well, Ubuntu is, anyway. I have no idea what Wubi is supposed to mean.

HeartBurnKid

What's up with the baby talk? BuBU, poopoo, doodoo. FooFoo.

Noobs-R-Us

@Topcat: Someone wants to be taken out behind the toolshed by nutbastard

OMG! Ponies!

@strider_mt2k:

Do it. I triple dog dare you.

nutbastard

i ran ubuntu hardy heron for a bit on my laptop, reverted back to windows for numerous reasons. I think i will try this out. Still ubuntu is not the OS of choice for a audio video workstation. I make the full leap to ubuntu when there are apps like ableton live, Cakewalk SONAR, adobe audition,pr tools, EZ dfh, fxpansions BFD2. I even used ubuntu studio for awhile but it wasn't as good in my opinion as the windows based apps i have on hand. So until ubuntu has some stellar audio video programs i am stuck looking at world through windows.

DeathGrind

I'm getting the cd for free, it should arive in the next month just in time for me to try it out with wubi on my new computer.

gamecrazychris

Finally!! A reason to grow a neck beard!!

weshirecat

href="#c5359825">Noobs-R-Us:Those are "Project" names. On most of the larger distributions such as ubuntu, fedora etc, they get renamed with more non-geek readable names.

Take the default movie player for ubuntu for instance. It's called "Totem", but in the menu, by default, it's just "Movie Player".

I havn't messed with Wubi yet, but I would be willing to be that when it comes up via autoplay, it says something more along the lines of "Install Ubuntu", not "Wubi"@

bpatten

@Topcat: I'm sorry, did you say something? I couldn't hear you over the sound of your ego inflating and your smugness filling the room.

HeartBurnKid

@innout3x3:
@xint:

Try the torrent of the releases. This is what bittorrent was designed for.

Oregon State University mirror: [ubuntu.osuosl.org]
Argonne National Labs mirror: [mirror.anl.gov]

wlcrm

@RabbiHarley: I'm unable to tell if you're being sarcastic. o_O

HeartBurnKid

WUBI allows you to install Ubuntu into a folder on the Windows partition, no need to re-partition your drive if you want a dual boot machine.

Hibernate features will no work however.

Atticka

Linux people just don't get it. All we Windows users really want is an operating system that's equally as shitty as Windows. Linux keeps striving for perfection, and that just isn't where the rest of the real world lives. Thank goodness Steve Jobs and Bill Gates realized this great truth long ago. Until Linux Operating Systems get down to Earth, back to the REAL world where most computer users live, don't bother me with, "ooohhh we have a New & Improved version of Linux"...BS, they all suck (hard) unless you're a pimple faced geek that still needs to get a life outside his computer room.

RabbiHarley

@xint: If the Ubuntu site is slow enough, your connection shouldn't be the bottleneck.

Andham

I finally got into Ubuntu recently and I must say its excellent. It takes some trial and error at first because truthfully there are still some things you need to work through the console to do (tougher for some of us)
It works great with my hardware and its definitely faster than my vista, just still some awkwardness and some programs not available that I use.
Overall if you haven't upgraded or given it a test drive, what is stopping you?

GhoS

@Topcat: So your saying that someone can design amazing software, provide it for free, let you do whatever you want with it, and ask nothing in return. But, they still can't name it what they want.

Why don't you just FUCK OFF

mferrari

I have been using Ubuntu Hardy since early beta and I can honestly say, its the best OS I have ever used. I still have a Vista partition for little windows things I may need, but VirtualBox has all but made that partition unnecessary. As a matter of fact, Im posting this from Ubuntu with my Moto e815(evdo) tethered to my laptop. I had to install ZERO drivers for this to function.

Dook_In_The_Urinal

For those on the fence, Ubuntu runs like a champ on my little Toshiba Satellite. It has a couple little glitches, but no more so than XP or Leopard (yes Apple, Leopard has bugs - still). If your computer is getting a little sluggish with XP, ask yourself how much gaming you do and maybe a 360 and Ubuntu should be in your future.

OMG! Ponies!

@RabbiHarley:

says a guy who hasn't bothered to try Ubuntu lately... is it possible to be an anti-fanboy? yes. yes it is.

nutbastard

@RabbiHarley: yeah if you arent being sarcastic then STFU
linux FTW
I am actually on my macbook, but I plan on installing this on my old computer, I have a few friends who use it and it is very very cool

takemetoyourtoaster

@strider_mt2k: Heck, it's always a good time to try a new/different OS! There must be a LiveCD version available? that would allow you to check it out without leaving a permanent footprint, while you decided if you liked it or not. You can cache files on the PC to provide persistence between reboots/better performance, if you liked, while still making it easy to remove if you decided that it wasn't for you. If you like it, you can then do a permanent install and get better performance.

I'm glad it's final now, as that means that Parallels will soon have complete support for it: I've been playing with it in a virtual machine on the MBP, but the mouse integration, etc will make that experience more seamless.

Mandatory_Field

@mferrari:
Goose-fraba
Goose-fraba

Dook_In_The_Urinal

@HeartBurnKid & nutdipshit;
@_@
:o]
o_0

RabbiHarley

@mferrari: Tone it down. If you get too close to a troll, you might become one yourself.

OMG! Ponies!

@Topcat: Kit gused xto kbe gthat xI kcouldn't gstand GNU/Linux xand kUnix gsoftware xnames, but lately they've been getting better. A lot of them still look and sound as though they were derived from bowls of alphabet soup or cereal, but at least a lot more of them seem to be deviating from the tired old K-this, G-that, X-whatever school of software names. I think it would be funny if there were an enterprise GNU/Linux project dedicated to software releases with more commercially acceptable names; they wouldn't actually fork so much as just rebrand every release.

I had some trouble with my Internet connection earlier today and after spending hours to download a few hundred megabytes of the new release, I was unable to resume the download, but I was just able to download it anew, so it's tinkerin' time again.

Brian Sexton

The i386 torrent downloaded within a half an hour for me. The amd64 torrent took a little longer, but it was barely over an hour.

dklipse

@Topcat: I thought the same thing, the first time I installed Fedora and the partition app was called Disk Druid. Ugh! You could cut the nerdiness with a knife.

kaneshadow

@Brian Sexton: Actually, it looks like "WUBU" and "WUBI" are both wrong; it's just "Wubi" at the Wubi site.

Brian Sexton

"WUBU" was a typo; I meant "WUBI", obviously. Comment-editing might be nice. :)

Brian Sexton

OK, I'm back from trying the AMD 64 version via WUBI and I can report that the installation process seemed surprisingly sloppier than a regular Ubuntu installation. It seemed strange when the help text for the Desktop Environment menu listed a few different options when the menu actually contained only one option, but I wasn't actually expecting those other options, so the discrepancy was more tease than trouble.

After the Windows-hosted portion of the installation, things went a bit bad when WUBI told me it was time to restart my computer (I don't recall if it mentioned which operating system it wanted me to continue with) only for Windows Vista to interrupt its restarting process with a message that the installation may not have succeeded. I restarted anyway and after selecting Ubuntu from the Windows Boot Manager menu, the installation finished.

Overall, the WUBU-installed system seemed to work fine, but Ubuntu couldn't download an Nvidia driver, so I couldn't try out the desktop effects. Also, my user name under Ubuntu was inexplicably "brian User" instead of the "brian" I had typed into WUBI.

I may still go ahead with a full installation on a dedicated hard drive, but I satisfied my Ubuntu-via-WUBI curiosity, so I uninstalled it. Even though Windows reported the name as "Ubuntu" and the publisher as "Ubuntu", I was then told that WUBI had been uninstalled, not that Ubuntu had been uninstalled. It was odd.

Brian Sexton

Oh yeah: I forgot to mention that when I booted back into Windows Vista from Wubi-installed Ubuntu, my system clock was an hour ahead of the real time.

Brian Sexton

I shall be personally dissapointed if Ubuntu 13.01 isn't codenamed 'Mystic Mongoose'.

Mongoose

@nutbastard:
@OMG! Ponies!:
Thanks for the encouragement! :)
I'm on it.

Downloading the ISO as I type this.

strider_mt2k

One more thing: the Wubi uninstaller did not restore Windows Vista to its original booting state; Windows Boot Manager still appears, asking me if I want to boot into Windows Vista or Ubuntu.

Brian Sexton