The wubi installer can be found here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#wubi
The bank runs linux on some of the highest transaction rate applications (WebSphere 6.1 on RHEL4) and the load distribution, response time metrics, and other key data points all indicate that linux is rock solid in the enterprise server arena.
I tried that wubi.
Nice installer.
But....
It did install Ubuntu dual boot.
I booted into Ubuntu. It finally loaded, but stopped at some $$$ command line.
I have no idea where to go from there. [That is a major problem if Linux people expect non-users to ever convert.]
I finally found a command line ‘help’. It was useless. It had Linux terminology without explanations.
I just wanted to get to the Ubuntu Desktop.
Couldn’t figure out how. It did give an http for help.ubuntu. That was sort of useless because Ubuntu desktop didn’t load, so I finally had to reboot in Windows.
In Windows, the help.ubuntu.com tells how to do things on the Ubuntu Desktop — which was useless because I couldn’t find any way to load the desktop on start up.
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That is why Linux has a long way to go before replacing Windows.
Linux needs user — not technobabble — documentation. It is reminiscent of the early PC days when the PC came with the technical reference manual and no user documentation. [I used to write user documentation for PCs in the mid-late 80s.]
I, like many users, am just not sure I want to take allot of time to learn a whole new system. With all of its problems Windows loads, goes to a menu, and allows you to select from there.
Ubuntu took me to a $$$command line — without any hint of acceptable commands.