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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Tool to install a linux distro in dual boot directly from Windows? Without live USB (lemmy.ml)

submitted 15 hours ago by linucs@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I always hear that a normal computer user would never install an OS and that is the main reason Linux has not a higher market share. But I guess what we mean by that is that a user would never create a live usb, access the boot options and boot from there to install the new OS.

Is there a hard technical limitation when it comes to create a tool that installs a linux distro from a "normal" windows exe file, provided that the user first disables secure boot and fast boot (which are things a tool with admin privileges should also be able do on first run)?

Does such a tool already exist?

I feel like there's something I'm missing, forgive my ignorance

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[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you have more than 1 Drive, you can just use a bash script and 7zip to unzip Linux to the drive, that does it

Otherwise you would have to resize a mounted partition, which is just more of a risk than smacking that user with a frying pan until he decides to learn how to install an OS

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

Another way explicitly banned by OP is running a script, which prepares a live USB drive and reboot to it. One would argue it's the same process as your resizing a mounted partition method.