▲ 75 ▼ Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? (thelemmy.club) submitted 2 months ago by TheViking@nord.pub to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world 56 comments fedilink hide all child comments I am working on windows 10 currently. I was wondering if MX Linux could be installed directly from online. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (2 children) Ubuntu used to offer a tool that was only a bit more involves than that permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] adarza@piefed.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 child) the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked. endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work--with some caveats: it's slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that's in development will change pretty much everything 'under the hood' that makes endless what it is, as they're moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheViking@nord.pub [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Which distro is that ?? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 point 2 months ago is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation. https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system my 'monitor' (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that's the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows 'installer'. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Do we know why they stopped? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (2 children) I'm going to guess that users lost their files and complained, so Canonical stopped trying to make it easy enough for those users to try. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 point 2 months ago probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago That's fair. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] adarza@piefed.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 child) the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked. endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work--with some caveats: it's slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that's in development will change pretty much everything 'under the hood' that makes endless what it is, as they're moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TheViking@nord.pub [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Which distro is that ?? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 point 2 months ago is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation. https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system my 'monitor' (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that's the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows 'installer'. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TheViking@nord.pub [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Which distro is that ?? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 point 2 months ago is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation. https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system my 'monitor' (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that's the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows 'installer'. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 point 2 months ago is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation. https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system my 'monitor' (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that's the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows 'installer'. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) Do we know why they stopped? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (2 children) I'm going to guess that users lost their files and complained, so Canonical stopped trying to make it easy enough for those users to try. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 point 2 months ago probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago That's fair. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (2 children) I'm going to guess that users lost their files and complained, so Canonical stopped trying to make it easy enough for those users to try. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 point 2 months ago probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago That's fair. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] adarza@piefed.ca 1 point 2 months ago probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway. permalink fedilink source parent
