Comment 238 for bug 477169

Sébastien,

Amen to your prayer.

I salute the industry of Ubuntu developers and followers, but these
corrupting, recommended updates and upgrades are driving me to the
realization Ubuntu should not yet be in the public domain.

Like me, you have read that we should install Ubuntu straight in, that
is, avoid Wubi. A straight install displaces the Windows boot loader,
however. We would be dependent on GRUB to boot both OS. What are we to
do after the next GRUB or Linux kernel update, when GRUB fails to boot
Ubuntu /and/ Windows?

Exactly whose assurance am I, a programming neophyte, to accept that
GRUB is invulnerable to update subversion when integrated into a
straight Ubuntu install, be my external file system NTFS or no, be my
Ubuntu partition above or below 4 GIG? I detect no plainly trustworthy
Ubuntu authority. Rather, it is distributed over an ad hoc network of
volunteers.

Is like a leaderless, silent Quaker Meeting. Ubuntu is nearly as
inscrutable and amorphous. Is certainly better that Boeing produced my
777.

James Liebert
Akron, Ohio

On 2010-01-09 07:34, Sébastien GRIPON wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 477104 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/477104
>
> It would be nice to provide a patch installer for Windows users and give
> a link on it from a place where non expert users can find easily.
>