Getting Better Results With WUBI | Linux Today

Getting Better Results With WUBI

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 25, 2008

“Well, while there are so many great things that WUBI offers,
there is one drawback that can make eyebrows rise. WUBI downloads
the latest “iso” image from the web automatically when you run it.
There is nothing wrong with that and infact this is what makes WUBI
a very very easy tool to use. Then what really is wrong with
WUBI?

“The problem is, WUBI does not seem to choose the fastest mirror
near your location. And this makes the download take very long
time. I installed Ubuntu in my machine using WUBI and it took
nearly 12 hours to download the “iso” image (Kindly note that the
size of the iso image is around 700 MB). And even worse, when I
tried installing Ubuntu via WUBI in my wife’s notebook, it took
nearly 18 hours and downloaded only 38% before I got frustrated and
stopped WUBI.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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